Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

I love you is eight letters...then again, so is bullshit.

I have a big heart and a small brain.

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

Women are always beautiful.

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas

Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Every girl has something beautiful in her soul. It doesn't matter if she's fat or thin. That has nothing to do with her personality.

I have 4 kids already, I don’t need anymore. I’m a single parent. I’m taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.

Successful leaders leaders lead with passion and compassion.

Only God can tell a truly plausible lie.

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

When you're working on a record, I find it's better not to share details during that process. Because, until it's done, it can change.

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.