The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

Be the hero of your own life story.

The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.

You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.

The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day.

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

I appreciate and love women for many reasons, tall and small, plump and skinny, and crazy and demure. I see beauty in all of them.

Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

I'm a boring guy - I have a wife and three kids. I'm not like Mr. Controversy.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

I'm a great observer of delicate situations and women. I really like that bygone type of movement, and for a long time I had been looking for it.

I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.