To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.

Don't fear the world and you will conquer it, fear it and it conquers you - rjs

Those were my last words. To be listed in some book of quotations, alphabetically after

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.