I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, “An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.

And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.

Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.

I hate holidays because it's the quietest; it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.

Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time.

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.