I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

If you're handed sour grapestake off your shoes and start dancing

Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.

Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.

How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.