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My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Lord, expand my mind to gain access on understanding how I become a majesty in your presence. You are my key to success. Protect me from being hurt as I travel this narrow, straight road.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

We live in a twilight sort of world where, unfortunately, the perception of the seriousness of abortion - has grown progressively obscured in the minds of many of our contemporaries.

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special.

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

I would make it illegal to walk into a comedy club with a tie on.

There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar. Soon I realized that bass was what was really grooving me.

My musical journey with A. R. Rahman is filled with personal milestones and realisations.

I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.