Applause, applause, life is our cause.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.

I am compelled into this country.

High living can lead to low feelings

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

You must be sure - and I mean absolutely positive - that you have the willpower to pay off those credit cards and not use them again.

Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same.

I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still His plan.