"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..."

"Who taught me true strength? Who taught me kindness? Whom do I walk for? Who did I want to stroke my hair? Who didn't give up for me? I'll never forget."

"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!"

"[...]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."

"Harry is a true musician. He has a massive amount of information that he's dealing with, so he is very comfortable wherever a song goes. Great music is like leaping off a cliff, but some musicians will only go to the precipice. Harry just jumps, which is why playing with him is very liberating."

"New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate."

"I started making movies when I was 20. I started playing piano when I was about 3 years old, so I'm probably a musician first. But when I'm working on a movie, as an actor, I'm an actor - 100 percent. And when I'm on tour, I'm a musician 100 percent."

"I was in such a state while I was recovering from this surgery and the pain medication that I was on sort of took all the inhibitions out that I may have had. I found that I was ordering things online; big boxes of stuff would arrive at my house."

"[When asked how he's keeping his 12-year marriage to wife Jill fresh] Hookers, drugs. We’re playing the field right now."

"Music is one of the very few things left in this world, which has an amazing power of healing. I really hope that these songs will set your imagination free, enrich your emotions and help your heart and mind feel happier."

"I'm not staying contemporary for the big record companies, I don't follow the latest fashions. I never sing a song that's badly written. In the 1920s and '30s, there was a renaissance in music that was the equivalent of the artistic Renaissance. Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and others just created the best songs that had ever been written. These are classics, and finally they're not being treated as light entertainment. This is classical music."

"A lifelong liberal Democrat, Mr. Bennett participated in the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march in 1965, and, along with Harry Belafonte, Sammy Davis Jr. and others, performed at the Stars for Freedom rally on the City of St. Jude campus on the outskirts of Montgomery on March 24, the night before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the address that came to be known as the "How Long? Not Long" speech. At the conclusion of the march, Viola Liuzzo, a volunteer from Michigan, drove Mr. Bennett to the airport; she was murdered later that day by members of the Ku Klux Klan."

"I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research."

"As long as there are girls, we need guy bands. However, in this day, it is not good enough to just sing great. You have to write, sing and play. We want it all."

"I can make $4 million somewhere else. My body is for me and for whoever my love interest is at that moment, and that's the only person who gets to see it."

"I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song and I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a hoedown. I'm sorry."

"Hello, I'm Boy George, and you are watching RBTV. Come out of the closet, all you students - we want you!"

"It's like being at school. Except you can't leave."

"I was pleased because he is the first American rapper to say something positive about gay people. I met his mum, she's lovely."

"Madonna is "a living, breathing cash register"."

"Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more ... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces."

"I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite."

"She said "I'm young enough I'm old enough In the city machine Where industries Fill the fish full of mercury""

""Darren Hayes recently came out and he certainly does make a good role model" - Generation Q"

"I don't feel like I've re-invented myself, I feel like I've re-discovered who I was."

"Laura Nyro made a choice that has tempted me on many occasions. And that was to lead an ordinary life. She married a carpenter, as I understand, and turned her back on it all. Which is brave and tough in its own way."

"They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here."

"Sage's light Oh and Edison He made two sparks ignite All you do It's a scientific chain reaction"

"I saw a man take a needleful of hard drug And die slow"

"He got his mean streak from the gutter Got his kindness from God"

"I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life"

"So he swears he'll mever marry Says that cuddles are a curse Just tell him plain You're on the next train If love don't get you first"

"Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman"

"If you love me true And if you love me true I'll spend my life with you And Timer You're a jigsaw, Timer"

"You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky"