Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later wont fall.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.

A delayed game is eventually good a bad game is bad forever.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I am a child of the 21st century.

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds And though a late a sure reward succeeds.

Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.

Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.

I did sing in another film called 'Empire Records' which is a cult film. 'Grease 2' is also a cult film. You either love it or just think the original was better.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.

The Americans have no liking for wine unless it is sweet.

Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.