Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.

Changing my name was traumatic for me.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.

I am so longing to be domestic, , cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.

Don't go against your inner knowing. Just don't. Trust yourself.

Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.

No number before zero. The numbers may go on forever, but like the cosmos, they have a beginning.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.

Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.