Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.

We love the things we love for what they are.

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

Only place yourself around people who love your strengths and are also safe to be vulnerable around - you'll need both power and vulnerability in womanhood.

I've got numbers in my head that I'd like to keep to myself. If I get them or pass them, only I will know.

I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.

What I’ve learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.

When you photograph a lot of women, you get to know things.