I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.

Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

It’s always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, "This guy is very cool." I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

I was strong from losing them, maybe, but any goodness in me came from having them." (p. 124)

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer—no matter how eloquent the oration.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

I can't sing anything other than country!

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.

The paper burns, but the words fly away.