Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.

The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.

You have something in this world, so stand for it.

بالدم نكتب لفلسطين We write with the blood for Palestine

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

If I were thinking straight, I'd take you home right now.

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.