Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

I hate hateful people.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

The spirits of children are remote and wise...

Health first, then everything else.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

Coaching has been my entire life.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.

I've always felt like you should love who you love - sexuality doesn't matter. It would be so cool in the future if it weren't even an issue to anybody anymore.

Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy & peaceful.