The biggest lesson is that you write the best songs when you're being real, an honest and you mean what you're saying, not trying to be something you're not.

Singing your own songs live is so personal, it's like standing there reading out your diary pages. I still get really nervous so I would have to say performing is the greater rush for me.

I would say the main themes are love, loss and life. Although a lot of the songs represent hard times and situations I think my album is positive, the message is things will get better.

We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

John Andrew Holmes, “No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.

Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come”, and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: “You see, my son, time turns here into space

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

There are some dogs that are gigantic that look like they shouldn't be in existence.

The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.

I agree that we need a working relationship with Russia to deescalate a nuclear arms race, to resolve the crisis in Syria.

Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder, and Randa didn't deserve it. And even though she wanted what the voice wanted, she didn't think she had the courage for it.

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.