I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.

The lovers appearing happy walk holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect only they know the truth.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

Remember folks stop lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

I feel like if you are with someone through the process of pregnancy and delivery, if nothing else, there is such an incredible amount of respect that would lead into some sort of love in one way or another.

Laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

I don't like losing.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom so the denial of God is the height of foolisnes.

When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

You didn't find comedy in 'Magadheera.' Any film high on emotions doesn't need such elements.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

I am more comfortable on set than I am in my own home.

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.