I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

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.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

A new baby is the beginning of a new universe—his own unique universe.

Hard work and determination-that is what will get you closer towards accomplishing your goal.

No need for everyone to look the same. The secret is to wear what suits you best!

Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities don't interest him. He is only interested in what Islam says.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?