It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

A successful person allows his results to speak for him, not his mouth.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

Keep compassion close to your chest at all times.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.