"If music be the food of love, play on"

"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Music is my religion"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"Its love that makes the world go round, my baby"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love"

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite"