I think every album serves as a step in your career.

For me, my music has always been like an open diary.

Family is what really runs through my head. I'm usually bombarded with tons of phone calls, but I'm usually bombarded with love as well.

I love my family; they're such great people and they really love what I do.

I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.

There is no sinner in the world however much at enmity with God who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary and by asking her assistance.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.

How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.