Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

I hate hateful people.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

if all of life were an illusion then the instruments science would use to measure reality could not be depended upon.

Unless you're God, you are never too "big" to be a fan.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God.

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

People stereotype pop stars, but Christina [Aguilera] proves them wrong with her unique style and talent.

I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.

There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night