Don’t lose that anger. Just have a little more patience and forgiveness. For yourself as well.

It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit.

Have you listened to your heart?

How needy man is.

One should be able to have the man one loves.

The only safe place left is the dark.

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.

We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

I'm singing. I'm a singer!