"Sometimes I'll open my voice to sing and I'll think, "I hope I hit the right notes." I do music for a living and I still feel like that, but it's good because it keeps me humble, it keeps my feet grounded, it keeps me trusting in God."

“This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.”

“Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.”

“London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.”

“I think a lot of the people that stand by Donald Trump are deplorable. And the things that they say are deplorable.”

“And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.20

“If I can still be successful making films and no-one will ever know me, then that would be great. Because we (actors) just like to do what we do. People who are doing it for fame, I don't know if they ever get really successful.”

“The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.”

“I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.”

Source : Robert Mapplethorpe, Germano Celant, Hayward Gallery (1996). “Mapplethorpe”