I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.

Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

your depth in language cannot be considered that you are talented. only your attitude ! mind it ..

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.

There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk.

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.