I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

That is strange and creepy, " Marcy remarked, "but totally cool. You Ghostbustered her.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.

Light, air, sound. In every space, it's how you embrace those things.

At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both books I have reread regularly since.

We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.