Restrictions will set you free.

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.

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

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.

How could we have achieved the set-goal, without endurance to the end?

Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.

Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.