"When you're (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there's no other way to preserve it."

“The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.”

“Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.”

“A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.”

“I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.”

“...love is never stationary.”

“The fruit that you eat will never taste as beautiful as the fruit that I ate during the turmoil of war. You will never cherish it as much as I do.”

Source : Bloomberg Markets Interview, www.lksf.org. December 22, 2002.

“Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.”

“I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that evolves with time. I like things to be the same. For a woman I think it's fantastic to have things that are different - it's like a flower where every season there's some new exotic bloom.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.