Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.

If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

If an accident happens in a plant, the aftermath will be unimaginable.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.

Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.

Failure is not a verdict; making mistakes is the price of the ticket.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

Love has more force than a besieging army.

Moments of solitude are the holiest moments to think wisely!

Yela represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. Wolf speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.