They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

Every great journey stimulates great faith and great joy.

Life's a maze, you twist and you turn through itThe driest of droughts, maneuvered and I earned through it

If you can't take care of yourself, you can't take care of someone else.

What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's opinions, you have to ask for them. What you read might surprise you.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.