In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs.

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

The core of my being is the trigger for the choices I make. With each choice, my personality is enhanced or degraded.

I'm very interested in people, in general.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, "I am the good one," it doesn't work.

When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears