Popular Quotes Through Time

There have been times in my life when I wondered about God's existence. When Prince smiles, when Paris giggles, I have no doubts.

I'd slit my wrists rather than hurt a child. I could never do that. No one will ever know how much these wicked rumors have hurt me.

Just let me share and give, put a smile on people's faces, and make their hearts feel happy.

They used to call me a 45-year-old midget wherever I went.

All of us are products of our childhood.

I love to trick or treat. I love dressing up like some kind of monster and knocking on doors. Nobody knows it's me, and I get candy.

Nothing is more important than our children. They are the future. They can heal the world. It is our obligation to be there for them.

Often, people just don't see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometimes I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words, and in song, and in dance, I think that is what artistry is.

I love to draw pencil, ink pen. I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany, or England, you know those huge paintings? I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

We're more popular than Jesus now.... Jesus was alright but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

You're born in pain. Pain is what we are in most of the time, and I think that the bigger the pain, the more God you look for.

I don't want to die, and I don't want to be hurt physically, but if they blow the world up... we're all out of our pain then, forget it, no more problems!

You can't just keep quiet about anything that's going on in the world unless you're a monk. Sorry, monks!

When Paul first sang 'Hey Jude' to me-or played me the little tape he'd made of it-I took it very personally. 'Ah, it's me!' I said. 'It's me.' He says, 'No, it's me.' I said, 'Check, we're going through the same bit.' So we all are. Whoever is going through that bit with us is going through it; that's the groove.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock-and-roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

That was a great period. We were like kings of the jungle then, and we were very close to the Stones.... I spent a lot of time with them, and it was great.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

I used to be cruel to women, and physically-any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace.