I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.