When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.

You know, I'm unable to make those records where you just go in a studio and that's it. I think you can capture so much more on a record than just a particular performance on one day.

I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.

My songs get to a stage where they resist any further change, you know? And that's kind of where they are, short of re-recording or starting again. That's kind of where it's gonna be.

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

In the shimmering ignorance of illiteracy of compassion and faith the stoic desire of loving without temporal gains rules the hearts and minds in deeds and care

It takes more than a burning desire to be a winner. You have to be willing and able to work tirelessly until your name is written in the book of success.

It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.

When you're learning, you're burning - putting out a lot of heat. When you're all burned up, then you become light.

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.