Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

In 2005, my mad half, HER was born... ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, 2012.

If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.

I simply don't accept losing well. I just feel whatever it takes to win, you have to do it.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Money isn't everything. I've got money and I've got everything, and they're not the same.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.