I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.

You need fear to create, to live.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I want to win. I don't care about the money.

The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.