Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

But if government is in the business of promoting what is good and suppressing the bad, that is a license for it to stick it’s nose into virtually every human activity.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself as a delightful little man.

Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.

I believe if you work really hard and follow what you want to do in life that that combination - I believe in it. You need to take risks.