There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Now. Is this life or not?I be so calm.If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

You can’t dream, if you don’t sleep.

Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.

I believe in fate and what's meant to be mine will be mine, and if it's not in my lap, then it's not mine.

I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.

Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.

In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.

When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.

Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.