Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

All the music I write is a search for myself.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.

For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.

The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.

I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.