When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

People love to hear the mistakes you've made.

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.