Today he told Erec “Fun is for having. It is the one thing that is forever.” Erec agreed.

Imagine – hundreds of years of constant learning. It’s truly amazing.

He pointed the scepter around the library and had an instant input of all of the books that were there into his brain, as if he had read them all at once.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

I never want to play a character that's one-dimensional.

Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.