Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

There is no loss in life. The only loss is the love did not express.

Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust a white man.

Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs.

Wherever you go, go with inspiration and aspiration. Whatever you do, do with love and concern. Whomever you see, see with purity's beauty And responsibility's glory.

After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time.

I can't believe I'm in New Zealand, I can't wait to play. It's just so beautiful out here and so awesome.

There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.