To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

One place is very like another.

The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.

I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.

Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")

When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.