Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

The fans have been great, they've stuck with me through a lot of hit-less years and I think they were as determined as I was that it was time to put an end to the lack of hits.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

It's terrifying to show incomplete footage.

I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love', one of the most evocative singles of all time.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence

For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.