Unfortunately a lot of Bristol's creativity just gets marooned in Bristol. It is a cool place though, maybe too laidback for its own good.

Good psych should take you to a different place, be a bit disorientating and have the ability to make you wonder and perhaps make you feel the need to sit down.

Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments.

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

We usually live our lives with the belief that "I sacrifice myself for everyone else, " rather than thinking that "everyone else helps me.

Three or four times, I have had the great death but my life is lived in the million tiny moments that make up the one dance

The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.

When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.

If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.