The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then.

I just remember him [Baz Luhrmann] making me laugh, and his accent.

I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."

[Baz Luhrmann] is funny, to be quite honest with you.

I actually got to stay and watch the filming of different parts of the movie [Romeo+Juliet]. I got to meet some of the co-stars, like John Leguizamo.

I was 12, about to turn 13. [Laura Ziffren] pretty much knew she wanted to use me, so I just had to go and do the proper protocol and audition.

I've always been a fan and supporter of Prince. That's one of my inspirations.

I kind of think that he [Prince] was pleased because he allowed [When Doves Cry] to be done.

I believe adopting free unstructured play, within an appropriate framework, has rich potential in bringing up happy, well-balanced and resilient children.

Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.

We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.