You really get tired in one area of your life, and then you start questioning your whole existence.

Anytime you start getting a real tangible relationship with something that's been blown up to a legendary status, you just realize that every part of it is just people getting ahead.

You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the simplicity and the beauty of the songs Kurt Cobain wrote.

old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.

Purists don't take shortcuts. For me, the vision is more important than anything.

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear

Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

I want to help the Brazilian National Team the best way possible, whether is with goals, assists or even a slide tackle, whatever.

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.