I'm a very open and loving person. My whole thing has been "let love rule" since my first album. I'm about unity and peace and God.

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.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you

Tears are not thorns.

The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands.

If you talk to your body, it will listen.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.