Committed to lead from the heart I appreciate a free spirit and do not follow idealistic rulebook.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Hope distracts you from pain - it's pain with red lipstick on to seduce you.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.