To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I’m not saying that people should stop flying. I’m just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

I’m not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I make good music for long journeys.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

Sevier County is a great area.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

From what I’ve heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

We boil at different degrees.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

We are all alike, on the inside.

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That’s why I’m such a city cat.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘

There are a lot of good women in New York.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.