It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field.
There's no such thing as enough.
Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.
I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.
I have figured out that you never completely figure it out.
I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.
I still think of things for 'Jill' all the time. It's annoying, because I want to be able to find another character who I could write for indefinitely.
The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
I'm never satisfied with anything. It can make things hard for myself, but it also pushes me.
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.'
I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.
I can't keep fighting and being the No. 1 contender for years.
Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.
With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.
Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
