The case for interconnectedness between conscious human lives is hard to deny.

Perfection is impossible just strive to do your best.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.

Without forgiveness, there is no future.

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.