And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Loved for is based on one's perception, you can easily spend a lifetime trying to define its definition.

You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

First make peace inside yourself.

There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.

It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.