"It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing."

“He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.”

“A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.”

“Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,”

Source : "Journalist Geraldo Rivera". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 23, 2015.

“Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.”

“When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on my age, my history and all that I've been through in Brazil. Having been away from Brazil for so long, while not speaking in my own tongue, when I saw that image, I felt like I was taking my first deep breath after nearly suffocating to death. It was like the plastic had been removed from my head. Even if this breath turned out to be my last, at least I got to have this one moment of release. At least I got this one chance.”

“I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done.”

“Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.111, Oxford University Press

“Its easier to get to the top when youre shooting for the top.”