Don't be afraid of Pain. Pain only comes down to a certain point... beyond that, it can't reach you and the love you have inside.

Dance as if you got lost in the mystery and beauty of life.

Things will happen. But you have to believe that nothing is impossible.

It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

I have always noticed that people only think you are stupid if you do things differently from them.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.