I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.

Having a manicure pulls a look together. Hands are the first thing people see after your face.

I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.

I don't like it when I hear it said: 'but these youth say stupid things!'