You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC, ' and you see their eyes just glaze over.

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.

Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.

I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.

Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ....."As distance always doesn't ensure solutions

Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

Although our emotions sometimes behave like spoiled, selfish children, unfortunately we cannot send them to their room or tell them to stop screaming.

If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.