I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.

I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard anything as intelligent or sexy or angry as his music.

The Good News of the gospel of salvation must be declared to all nations.

Love grants us the power to forgive, to love when we’re hurt, but it also gives us the courage to let go, and the understanding that to love, we love freely—at our own choice.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

Look up and down and round about you.!

I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.

The original 'About Last Night' was phenomenal.

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

A picture is a model of reality.

In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about.