I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.

Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

I like the idea of helping people help people.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

I'm a boring guy - I have a wife and three kids. I'm not like Mr. Controversy.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.