My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.

People will not lend you a hand until you first touch their hearts.

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?