I'm not waiting, but I'm willing if you called me up. If you ever wanna be in love, I'll come around

And you don't have to care, so don't pretend. Nobody needs a best fake friend.

I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, You should give it a go in London.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

As a little kid, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson.

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

Being exhausted is all part of the fun. I'm cool with it. I'm not going to wish that it would slow down.

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight

Being generous without keeping score strengthens your spirit, keeps you focused on the people who make your business what it is, and helps breed success.

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

Silence is the space where man wakes up.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.