I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

Born into a life worth living.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it.

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

I'm pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken

Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.