Writing the book automatically made me accept myself and love myself more.

This is the thing, I'm not fazed by what people say about me because I know who I am and what I've been through.

I've succeeded a lot but there's still so much to do.

Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly. It grows with the wings of love and compassion.

They will conquer but they will not convince.

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn't talk until I was about 15. It's a kind of famous story at my house.

The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen... follow [and] honour your feelings.