I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.

Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.

Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

I like the idea of helping people help people.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

It’s funny how much easier it is to see others’ shortcomings and give advice when you’re not personally involved, for it’s almost impossible to see the light when you’re swimming in shit.

If you focus on the ultimate goal, you will find strength to overcome the hurdles on the path to success

When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness.

Give me good health and I'll take care of the rest.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own