"We're not like some of those 'Elvis' guys you see in the grocery store, buying their stuff while dressed in a white jump suit, that sort of thing. We love doing what we do, we appreciate and respect our audiences, we have a true love of The Beatles."

“The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.”

“Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.”

“May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.”

“Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ... How dare we do that which angels dare not do? Is it possible for us to argue that that which is forbidden in heaven is praiseworthy on earth?”

“Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.”

“Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Ciara on One Woman Army, Being Vulnerable and Who Her New Song 'Sorry' is Really About". Interview with Yolanda Sangweni, www.essence.com. September 10, 2012.

“World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds”

“Russia, Russia unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.”