I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Luka fisik memang diperlukan saat mempelajari sesuatu yang penting dalam hidup.

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

If someone leaves you, don't be depressed. They just did not deserve you. And always remember, "Whatever happens, happens for the best".

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

There come nought out of the sacke but what was there.

You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.

You look across this country people are fed up with Washington. This [2016] election was the American people saying, enough already with the corruption in Washington and it's both parties.

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.