Perspective is the cure for depression.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later