Count your blessings. Millions of people would love to trade their problems for yours.

It's better to die chasing a dream never caught than to die never having chased the dream.

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing.

I think having an open mind about these things is probably the most important thing, because even though I've never had an experience of the supernatural, something I couldn't explain.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

Give something that wasn't expected.

It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that is what I want to do when I grow up.

It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.