In addition to serving overseas the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

If journalism is good it is controversial by its nature.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other it seems to me in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband that they belong to each other in the name of Nature and are lovers by Divine right in spite of human convention or the laws.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them he opens the way for his successors.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert where man is never lonely for he feels life stirring on all sides.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005 2006 2007 I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me so to speak.

Film lovers are sick people.