At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

When Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.