I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

Music has infinite power to reach the gap between the heart and the soul to create infinite and ineffable joy.

You know how it is -- you get older, you get wiser, you start to ask yourself 'is it any use being able to summon creatures of the nether deeps when I could be watching BBC 4?

Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?

Sometimes it's the flaws that make something lovely.

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13)

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.