Ocean Quotes

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.

In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.

I'm not a centerfold.

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

Of course awards matter.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I don't intend to stop making music.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.

...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.

Your mind is a reservoir of potential

The Earth must have done some noble work

Sometimes people just need thunderbolts. Thunderbolts to climb like stairs. Sometimes people just need a talisman. A promise in the lectern of their hands.

Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.

you will never catch up.Walk around feeling like a leafknow you could tumble at any second.Then decide what to do with your time.--The Art of Disappearing

The people who pray together build together a better world

For what they make us feel. Like we belong."_ORS

The higher you soar the view is much better, and the giant in you appears. Go forth and conquer your dreams.

It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.

Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.

Funny is always a good way to start when in doubt

. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.

When you have swam in the seaa lake will no longer do

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...