"The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis." -Dalai Lama

"Why change the world when we can change ourselves?" -Mohandas Gandhi

"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage." -Georgia O'Keeffe

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all." -John Lennon

"There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist." -Maynard James Keenan of Tool

"You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same." -Jonathan Davis of Korn

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." -Kurt Cobain of Nirvana