"I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it."

"I trust myself. You need that to survive."

"Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed."

"People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication."

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art."

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."