The more I focus on the positive, the more positive my life becomes.

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

This is my vision-what I imagine I'll pass through on my way to the light. The blue sky, the clouds, the rays of light.

...the man of my dreams is a girl.

Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.

What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere?

What you see, isn't always what you get

Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you." "Am I the only one?" she asks. "Yes. Completely." First, last, and always.

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Iraq is a fabricated state that has failed. It has always been a failure. It exists on the map. On the map, it has some borders, but these borders weren’t drawn naturally.

Love is hope when reason despairs.

I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!