My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.

I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.

I think you have to start taking a few risks and sometimes they don't pay off.

One day I'll be as strong as people think I am.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift.

Television has raised writing to a new low.