W.A. Mathieu Quotes

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.

To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

The Voice Chamber hatches a new and healthy experience of the vibrational universe

When you are clear about what you want to learn, you will find your teacher. The teacher is already there. The two of you will meet because you are looking for each other.

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

Restrictions will set you free.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

If you love movies, then you love America.

My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

Im always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

It's pointless to go against digital because sooner or later you won't be able to do anything else.

I had my little teenage craziness where I wanted to be a doctor, I admit. I have to confess at one point I considered even going to school. Hopefully, I went back on the right track being an artist.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director.

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God's best friend.