"Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity."

“Our heart is restless until it rests in You.”

“So what's happening with the audio/visuality, for the first time we are doing the music - the people who would come to the concert love the music - they loved him and loved his music - for the first time in concert it's not only the music. Now it's time to know the man. We know the music, but what was the man like?”

Source : Source: www.news-journalonline.com

“Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.”

“By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.”

“The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.”

“What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.”

“I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.”

“Everyone has different layers to who they are.”

Source : "I used to sneak into my parents' bedroom and look through Playboy". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2007.