I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.

Make no mistake, my darling. I am coming for you. I will take you back.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

Times don't change. Men do.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.