It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

Every raindrop that falls is accompanied by an angel, for even a raindrop is a manifestation of being.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'

I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.