I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

The audience is the source of the energy that I project back to them.

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

Your path might be a lonely one... but, you are NOT alone!

Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.

His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.

When fate's got it in for you there's no limit to what you may have to put up with.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and the I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.

I'd like to say I'm one of the tight ends here and I hope this week helps me show that I do have the talent to be considered that.

I hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "brother of the stranger" in America's future.