Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

The long game was ended, the Snitch has been caught, it was time to leave the air....

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.