Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing.

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them