I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

Courage is the difference between success and failure. You must have this attitude, this is the right thing to do, so let's do it.

Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself.

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow hard and cold

Everything begins with an idea.

I had an experience a few years ago where I was on a plane in which one of the engines went out. I couldn't even remember my name. I was just repeating the word no over and over.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

When you slick back your hair, you get a really good idea of just how melon-like your head actually is.

It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good or bad news.

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.