I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

Whenever you make a record you want to inject something unique into it, that's unique to where you're from. I suppose that's some kind of inevitability.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands

IF YOU CHOKE YOUR POTENTIAL BEFORE IT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A POSSIBILITY YOU WILL NEVER REACH YOUR DESTINY

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.

Sophie is asking mum ‘Why am I NOT a doll NOT an adult NOT a boy NOT a giraffe?’ It’s so easy to miss all we are when we focus on what we are not!

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.