I don't agree with this romantic fantasy that people who suffer from depression are more likely to be artists. I find that I am more creative when I am happy actually.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

A real woman's blood pressure will go up when another man touch her, in anger of me losing my dignity and not because she likes it.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich.

I may or may not have almost body slammed one of my bandmates for snoring.

Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.