The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

There are women whose love only ends with death.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...

...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!

Music dispels misery.

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

History is change happening one person at a time.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

For me, each time I'm on stage, each time I'm working on a new album, it's like a dream. I can't believe it's happening.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.