I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

Without the 'applied awareness' of the Soul, 'happiness' cannot arise.

Anointing without a Character is a Disaster

Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.