There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

If I don't love myself, I won't survive.

I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.

Energy never dies. It just transforms.

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him.

I was writing this music for the people that sit in the back pew of the church. People that do come, but it's not quite in their hearts.

I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.