People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

I hate hateful people.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

Desire is often the greatest poison.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.