Long you live and high you fly. And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry. And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

But that's not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn't exist. You know? Walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness.

When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.

I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.

Stay positive but stay focused. Sometimes things can distract you and you don't want to be distracted on the journey to that mountain top.

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

Do not jump into reaction mode at the first appearance of negative energy. Just breathe, and relax.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.