Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

One of the things that you never realise while you are young is that things do come to an end.

World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to lead, and to lead in order to follow, then I think you're on the right path.

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.

Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.