I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

A good cricketer never loses his nerve.He just bats on!

Until you have answered the question “Who am I” you will not be capable of living your own life

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.

I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself

Be comfortable; be you. Whats most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you cant go wrong!

Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.