[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears.

You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.

We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.

The more real you get, the more unreal things get.

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.

We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information.

Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point.

Every girl deserves to be treated like a princess.

Close your eyes, they'll never see your vision

Hate comes from Intimidation. Love comes from Appreciation.

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

I’m a Congressman, and can do whatever I want

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.