Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

Cold, cold water, surrounds me now, and all I've got is your hand.

He's the reason I am strong but he is also my biggest weakness.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires.

...whatever you do, you’ll never kill my love. I love you! It’s only now that I realize I can’t imagine my life without you

I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.

Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.