I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

The fans have been great, they've stuck with me through a lot of hit-less years and I think they were as determined as I was that it was time to put an end to the lack of hits.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

Meditation is a great tool which can be used to create harmony between the inner subconscious world and the outer chaotic world.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.

The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

I think a lot of men just automatically like to lie, because they feel like their protecting a women's feelings.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

You fall in love with the girl next door but married her sister.

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.