I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.
I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics.
When I achieved what I thought the musicians were trying to do, the sound sort of bloomed. When it’s right, everything is beautiful.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I’ve had sex in trains, planes, wine bars… and quite a few car parks!
How do people make it through life without a sister?
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
