I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly

...if you spent all your time being protected, you never got to find out anything new.

I'm incredibly proud of everything that we've achieved in Busted. We've enjoyed some of the best times in our lives together.

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

God can dream a better dream for you than you can!

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.