My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

Love is the greatest gift of life. Those who give and receive are blessed with the ecstasy of life.

Ideas are easy

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

This is a dying fleck of love, about a drunken man, and a broken woman, taking steps into the woods, trying to remember the days, when the moon was full.

Falling in love IS bizarre and creepy

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

As with any true artist, change is the only constant.

When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero.