"Another goal that I have is to learn how to play the ukulele - should be fun - and to stop taking my clothes off for money. But I need money. That is a ridiculous goal. I'm gonna cross that one off. That's stupid."

“Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.”

“I'll name names, you know I won't hold back.”

Source : "Interview with Steven Cojocaru, 'People'". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. March 25, 2002.

“When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.”

Source : 1952 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.

“Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.”

“Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said by the other two Shining Ones, These are the men that have loved our Lord when they were in the world, and that have left all for his holy name; and he hath sent us to fetch them, and we have brought them thus far on their desired journey, that they may go in and look their Redeemer in the face with joy. Then the heavenly host gave a great shout, saying, 'Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'”

“I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.”

Source : "Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan gets spiritual". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 8, 2012.

“Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'”

“People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.”