It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Creativity is one of the highest transmissions of love.

What ever you think, you can make it real.

... On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you...

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

I believe in my writing.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

I like to know where the camera is.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

I don't really have a nemesis, but I have a series of hundreds of small enemies that fuel me. Everyone I meet I assume is out to get me and that fuels my fire on a daily basis.