My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.

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.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge