I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

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.

Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

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.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

You can’t invite love with hate.

I can be a better me than anyone can

Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.

Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look.