I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.

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.

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.

I am no one's to be claimed, I belong to me.

All their life, people work hard to earn money, and they never earn enough money to fulfill their dreams. Is this a paradox?

...it has been demonstrated through years of workshops that the Artist Within tends to make the same mistakes as the artist within everybody else.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.