When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

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.

The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.

I call myself a chameleon.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

You just went up and started playing, the audience got into it, and it was just a great high experience. That's what I kind of invented with "Mas Tequila" in Cabo.

New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.