I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.

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.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

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 only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.

Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich.

To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through.

Don't you think that a lot of designers get into fashion because they have something about themselves that they don't like?

I think it makes women feel better to find fault with other women. I do that, too.

'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.