When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.

People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.

I had a dream about you last night.. you were trying to give coordinates to an apple

It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me?

Good strategy, keep the conversation going until a guard notices the bodies outside the door. Maybe bursts in to save you. Not a bad idea.

I may forget myself, but you I could never forget.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

I don't think you can become what they became without being more than just a pretty face and a great body - you had to have something else.