If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate

Don't play with something you should cherish for life.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.

People show you who they are, not by what they say, but by what they do.

It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.

The Greek people do not want to exit the euro, and I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay within the Eurozone.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.