The happy man's without a shirt.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The more the merrier.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

To the disrupters go the spoils.

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.

Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.

I walked past Noel Gallagher on the street once and everyone was like, "Go speak to him! He's one of your heroes!" I thought I'd leave him. I don't know what I'd say to him.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

Honest songs aren't written for money.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

Whats the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.