“I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.”

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.

I’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.

The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren’t better. I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.

We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.

If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

If you have political convictions. Keep ’em to yourself

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Life is – the way God has given it to me was just a platter – a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It’s been beautiful.

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world.