If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

Bad music can make you weak.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

I can trust the One who has my best interest in mind.

There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in Excalibur. That was the first thing I said to her. "I loved you as Morgan Le Fay."

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

We don't have to surrender our souls or our compassion.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.