People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll, ' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I grew up in a neighbourhood where no one had red hair. I felt very conspicuous but not in a nice way.

Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem.

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will certainly be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

If people were like me, there would be no mob, because I don't play that game.

Its who you know and who can help you.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

George W. Bush did not go on television to trash [Donald] Trump.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.