The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

Battling through poverty was not my forte, and I didn't have the inkling of eluding them.

Time is not something to be killed. Doing so suffocates a part of us, writing off part of our life that could, or rather should, be spent doing something meaningful.

A fallen man is he who has lost the glory of God

The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.

We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.

Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.