"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

"The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it."

"It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly."

"As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours."

"I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough."

"Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man."

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."