"This year, once again, the seasons have passed. Memories have faded. The border between my blurry dream and reality has become blurred. Even so, the dream I once told you of did not have a single lie."

"If you don't need it, then it is useless to be compassionate. If it's important then it will probably be followed with pain. Loneliness that you feel with someone is worse than one you feel alone."

"Choosing only the things you like isn't irresponsible. If you can't find anything you like then why take the responsibility? I take only the possibilities that I'm ready to accept."

"I saw the end of an age with these, my eyes. But I didn't want to know that it's my turn next."

"Everyone, including I, is certain that "that thing" they're searching for is in the future. But how many people have realized that "that" is actually in the past? I can't even guess."

"Today's happy face, today's sad face. Yesterday, a weak self, tomorrow, a strong self. If it's you, who are you showing it to? If it's I, whom should I show it to?"

"When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way..."

"[...]Everyone has a secret. Right? Of course I have a secret. I think maybe you too?"

"My job is simply to be myself, to be Ayumi Hamasaki."

"I thought Mommy's life was strange, not mine."

"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."

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

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

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

"By your faith in people, you will someday be betrayed. I thought it was the same as being rejected. At the time I didn't have that kind of strength. Certainly, I knew too much. It was said that I was a strong child. I was praised, saying "you must have strength not to cry" The more things like that were said, the more even laughing was painful."

"…I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself."

"[...] I don't know my future. I don't know about tomorrow. I can just control for today or present, right now. [...] I don't want to think about future too much, because present is most important for me."

"Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing...because music is everything."

"If people will listen, I will go anywhere in the world!"

"I don't want to become adult!"

"To be universal you've got to stain the consciousness of the people. You've got to dig out a truth that everybody knows, but they don't want to hear, then tell it in a manner that's so articulate and so aesthetically indignant, so beautiful, that they've got to accept it back in their lives again. That's what I want to do. Touch something universal in your own language."

"While we were growing up, the biggest insult for us was when dark emigrant forces called our homeland an unnatural, artificial creation. When we grew up, the biggest insult for us was when we realised that was true."

"Like Machiavelli would say, little Jovana was five months old, and I was prepared to write even "I saw Feldmarshall Göring three times", just to slip away from the barracks for two days and see my little girl and her beautiful mother."

""I have always been against the war; I placed my family's existence in danger because I was speaking out against primitivism and nationalism and stupidity. I didn't do that so I could perform in Croatia again one day, but so I could talk with my children as a man, when the time comes." \"

"From far away, through the sights of a sniper, they would look like Muslims, Serbs or Croats to somebody, but I approached them face to face, I saw them clearly, and trust me... They were just people..."

"I said: 'I'll come [to Sarajevo]' and they asked me if I'm afraid; headlines where I'm from were saying: 'Balašević to be assassinated in Sarajevo'. [...] Let me tell you whether I'm afraid to come to Sarajevo... If I was afraid of something, I would seek refuge in Sarajevo. I told them: 'Okay, I'm going and it will be the way it is, it's alright'. [They said:] 'Aren't you afraid for your life? Afraid of an assassination?' I said: If that's the price, to be in the cross-hairs of some madman for 2 days. They were in the cross-hairs for 5 years. It's a way for me to, for at least 2 days, be a citizen of Sarajevo. At least in that way."

"He's utterly melodic and hopelessly romantic, and when he performs live, he robs the air from your lungs. Oh, and he's devoid of any charisma or star power whatsoever."

"Teitur Lassen speaks for the broken-hearted, who, for the most part, may be too timid to speak for themselves. His first effort is shamelessly honest and hints at very beautiful things to come."

"It's the way that you kiss, the way that you give back, The way you love me like this -- look at the beauty of that. These are the tangled words of our love, that we both do untie -- Same old ways, same old spice, same old paradise."

"You entered my aura and fell into my arms. I just wrapped around you like a snake that's been charmed."

"Your hair shines like gold, says my child. You are pretty old, says my child. And I think to myself how I used to be. There's another wrinkle that I see. Then he takes my hand and smiles at me."

"I feel the need to be naked with you. Take off my pants, my shirt, my socks and my shoes. I need to be naked with you."

"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again (yes), And then he asked me would I (yes, yes). I put my arms around him (yes), And drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts, And his heart was going like mad. Yes, I said yes, I will, yes."

"Ooh, little boy, in between changing fathers. Little girl has to live without Mother. They don't understand why they seem not to need them, Although all they need is a loving hand."

"I carried Bob Marley’s Redemption Song to every meeting I had with a politician, prime minister, or president. It was for me a prophetic utterance or as Bob would say "the small ax that could fell the big tree". The song reminded me that freedom always comes with a cost, but for those who would prepare to pay it, maybe "emancipation from mental slavery" would be our reward."

"The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness."

"Ev'rything's gonna be alright So, no woman, no cry."

"Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way In this bright future you can't forget your past So dry your tears I say No woman, no cry No woman, no cry Little darlin' don't shed no tears No woman, no cry"

"Say you just can't live that negative way You know what I mean Make way for the positive day Cause it's a new day."

"They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!"

"Who are you to judge the life I live? I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be, so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean."

"And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers."

"Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily."

"The U.S. empire rests on a grisly foundation: the massacre of millions of indigenous people, the stealing of their lands, and following this, the kidnapping and enslavement of millions of black people from Africa to work that land. Thousands died on the seas while they were being shipped like caged cattle between continents. "Stolen from Africa, brought to America"-Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier" contains a whole universe of unspeakable sadness. It tells of the loss of dignity, the loss of wilderness, the loss of freedom, the shattered pride of a people. Genocide and slavery provide the social and economic underpinning of the nation whose fundamental values reject hate, murderers, and evil."

"He had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives. When he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him why — He said, "The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness.""

"You just mentioned Bob Marley — I can remember when I was in college, listening — and not agreeing with his whole philosophy necessarily, but raising my awareness of how people outside of our country were thinking about the struggles for jobs and dignity, and freedom."

"I saw Marley a few months before he died in a concert at the Crystal Palace Bowl in South London. He was magisterial on that stage. His dreadlocks were shaken at the London Stock Exchange and at the Houses of Parliament. He stomped on the spot as if to put out the fire of despotism. He crooned some unforgettable lovers' lyrics as if to confirm that even the warrior has to love. His songs are anthems for me. They celebrate Africa, berate politicians, lament slavery, invigorate the spirit. Looking over the century as it closes, I see Marley up there with the best six popular songwriters - Gershwin, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billie Holiday, the Beatles... I know we all have our own lists."

"I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; put down your gun and listen to Bob Marley."

"The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you."

"Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment."