"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."

The personal is always political.

——在广州全国青年联合会演说，1923年10月21日

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

I don’t like to be told what I can’t do.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.