Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.

From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

The best paths in life are rarely the easiest.

I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

Life is sometimes like a cat, the more you chase it the faster it runs.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.

Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.