Pain comes with the decision of choosing what I have to offer now, but this same pain is needed to shape you for the greater destiny ahead.

It is only by choice that our true nature is revealed.

...if a man’s thirst is quenched by power, then all other desires are of no worth to him.

Our trust goes beyond the darkness.

My spirit is stronger.

How do we get our values so mixed up? We look for shortcuts to happiness. Our lust for immediate pleasure prompts us to think of evil as good.

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

I haven't known life to be any happier.

The wand chooses the wizard.

I think we're in a time and place, the last 20 plus years, and certainly now, it's only more so, where it's just about us creating a body of work. Creating hopefully our own scene.

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go three or four days without taking a shower and the man never smells.

I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.