The more I come to L.A., the more it's amazing.

All you have is your fire And the place you need to reach Don't you ever tame your demons But always keep them on a leash

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean

The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human being, and organizations that would undermine that, and undermine the more natural parts of being a person

Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.

...knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.

There must be some kind of way out of here, ' said the joker to the thief...

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.