If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.

A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.

I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.

What you think is a setback, is really a set-up for a greater comeback!

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us.

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.