I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

I hate hateful people.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.

The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.

Dying only means moving into a nicer house. We have only gone into the next room.We still are what we have always been.We aren’t far away. We are only on the other side of the pathway.

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

Original thinking is the hardest thing you can try to do or that you can do, but it is also the most rewarding. Focus on your personal growth and development

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

[People] have no jobs, they have horrible education, they have no safety or security, and I say to the African-American community, what the hell do you have to lose?

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm