My work is has always been very, very personal..

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..

Everyone has gifts; everyone can contribute..

The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist..

We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask o….

I don't really consider myself to be famous..

I'm a version of the same person..

What I do is me, for that I came..

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God..

I have always loved music..

To say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it..

To lead is neither to push or pull..

I'm too old to be forced..

Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself..

Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take..

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me..

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up..

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is..

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves..

I'm a perfectly equipped failure..

I have no knowledge of anything..