I'm so proud to have work in this movie, "Brokeback Mountain," a movie that once again shows us that love is what makes us all very similar in spite that we can be so different, too.

I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music.

It's always nice when your work is recognized.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Self-esteem isn't everything

The dreams we dream today will be the light to the generation to come.

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.