It took me a long time to realiseThat mothers are women who carry you And not necessarily in their womb.

You've got a lot to say for the one who walked away.

I think you feel like, unless you're damagedyou're not deep enough or mysterious enoughor complicated enough to ever be appreciated by another.And that is deeply untrue.

It took me a long time to realise that mothers are women who carry youAnd not necessarily in their womb.

I can’t pinpoint the moment this all happened. The moment we broke. But we did.And it feels like acid in my throat.

It always felt as though there were a shaken beehive living in my chest. I could never rest.

I felt torn Between living and dying Between sleeping and surviving.

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.

Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.