Love. The word scared me. Love. The word broke me. I fell apart.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

Life is good, without it we'd all be dead.

Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.

Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.