I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, " Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by chance.

There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

The moment one is born, the ‘saw starts cutting’. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Giving back is always something I'm doing - I'm honored for this, to always give back to the community.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.