Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

I hate hateful people.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries rinsed of debris sweetened judiciously and served in small portions not very often.

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it.

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

We are all a little crazy.

Only the river is free, always changing but always the same.