The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human] use.

The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

The body is the instrument of the soul.

I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.

If two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.