Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose.

We are not revived because we sing; we sing because we are revived.

We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

I really haven't joined the 20th or the 21st century yet. Someday. I'm getting closer. I have voicemail and a fax machine.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed, but never shamed.