When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.

I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.

Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."