We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.

Think globally, act locally.

If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.