It’s worth burning myself out like a matchso long as others receive the light and warmth I dispatch.

My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.

Rising from the ashes, I am born again, powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.

Everybody was dying, or already dead, or leaving other people, and the year was dying into winter, and the only thing to do was make some noise.

In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

No one wants to get hurt but without pain how can we win?

I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.