I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

The world is a drought when out of love.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

Judge little but love much.

Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself... then to be "in" with others and out of touch with myself.

Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?""Kiss a cow farm boy

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

Never, never try to scope the market.

I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.