Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.

I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city.

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.