All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Never trust sheep.

Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

I don’t know about art but I know what I like.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.