“My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds – a totally different dimension from the daily life.”

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Change is not always bad.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can’t do anything, but it really isn’t true.

How anyone could think of making money by fracking our planet, making this beautiful water dirty.

Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Love is what it takes to fly.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

Oh, another shadow! Do you want to join us?

Don’t ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you’ve spent a lot of time with it.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music – that makes it exciting.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

What is beauty? It’s what you love.

Be silent in a group of people See what they reveal to you.

Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He’s very young spirited, and it’s always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

It’s important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved any differently – and I have sisters, and would hate for them to be treated badly by guys.

I still got bars, I just use ’em differently. I’d say I’m a better singer than I am a rapper at this point because I’ve been sharpening my sword.

I have been confused with many pretty smiles earlier but your canines hit me differently.

It’s fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

Let a new place change you; come back different.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We’re not running the same race. It’s like we’re all doing different sports in fact.