. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.

My body, my soul and my mind, simultaneously response to good music.

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time.

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.