If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

A book, a book fullof human touches, of shirts, a bookwithout loneliness, with menand tools, a bookis victory.

Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

Ironically, many of people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.