I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.

I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.

High thoughts must have high language.

.the worse experience, the better teacher..

They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives.