I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing – it’s just an expression of me.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

I don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

I’m tender on the inside.

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

I’ve been lucky – all the ads I’ve got, I’ve got to be myself. I haven’t had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I’m not. I think that’s why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.