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.

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.

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.

I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

Most Religions are Social Clubs with expensive Entertainment Cheap Wine and Stale Crackers

When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Do not believe hastily.

Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth

We felt that the Gates Foundation looked at our track record and our publications and decided that "this is persuasive; this needs to be done. Let's see what they can do."