真実は、常に残酷である。
I don’t think of myself as a classical artist or a pop artist. I just think of myself as an artist who sings.
I'm not a singer. I'm a storyteller.
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.