I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

All you have is your fire And the place you need to reach Don't you ever tame your demons But always keep them on a leash

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean

The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human being, and organizations that would undermine that, and undermine the more natural parts of being a person

Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.

She hoped Alistair would prove to be more than she imagined. But, unfortunately, she knew without a shadow of a doubt that people weren’t what they once were.

I found I have to stay painting.

I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame.

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.

The Secret's message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?