Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

... Of his sins [Heavenly Father] does not want [man] to think [on them] too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better [Heavenly Father] is pleased.

What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?

Let the past drift away with the water.

The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott

The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

We need to make this a reality this year or I strongly suspect it will not happen.