[My father] was not a musical man.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.

I think if there's anything that can help fat kids get out of the house and anybody to move, it's a positive thing.

If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by

What we need is equality without conformity.

My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Let thy words be few when in the midst of many.