A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

Ideally, you don't speak until you have something honest to say.

I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.