You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you.

Each time you allow the past to hold your future, [he] steals more and more from you.

When bad things happen or you don't get your own way, if you can open your heart to compassion instead of shunting it down in anger, you're going to create more light.

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

Grief is love not wanting to let go.

But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.

...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

Nothing is worse than going home and having not played a gig.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.