I don't think I have to introduce myself, unless you don't recognize me with my clothes on.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

We are fools, not by our religious beliefs, however by what we are lead to believe by those who control what information we receive

Life's full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

If people find me attractive, it would be for reasons that anybody finds anybody attractive. It's something that comes from within, and it manifests itself physically.

The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps