Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

I know that Annie Lennox has saved my life quite a few times, and I never forget that.

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

The efficient management of organizations is key to generating wealth, for the development of a country, for the preservation of natural resources and the enhancement of the human being.

Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

Chefs become attracted to being able to get product and then clientele - those are the two things that attract you as a chef.

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

You need to find a way to propel this creativity to the masses. People get brainwashed and they start to forget what's good.

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.

I was married in my 30s, in a long relationship for about seven years, got divorced, and then I had a string of flings, and then was single for two years.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.