In Scotland I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

Be the hero of your own life story.

The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.

You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.

The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day.

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

I appreciate and love women for many reasons, tall and small, plump and skinny, and crazy and demure. I see beauty in all of them.

Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

As long as there is the egoism of ‘I-ness’ (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards ‘my-ness’ (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?

Too much hurry will bury your goals. Too much haste will make you waste. Too quick race will cripple your pace. Be patient.

It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.

An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.

There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.

I love making people laugh.

You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.