Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

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.

Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness, / Wherein the...enemy does much.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

This is a lifelong dream of mine and I'm very very glad to be with you.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

Our lives will last as long as God has something for us to do.

I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself.

Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.