I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

I awoke with an insatiable desire to end my life.

Aberrant is not abhorrent

getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn’t help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

I'm not a trust-fund type.

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.