To write is to confront the darkness within.

要发出光芒，必须忍受燃烧。

I'm not a creature of your government's creation. I'm not a creature of any government's creation. I answer to a higher power, and that higher power is music.

1998年就国际外交政策发表观点时引用美国黑手党首领艾尔·卡彭曾经说过的话。