You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

The skyline is etched in my veins. You can never put that out, no matter how hard it rains.

And know that every struggle in life is there to teach you a lesson It's times like this that make you

Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky I know your fed up but you must try to survive Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup

Don't forget where you come from Don't die holding on to your words Cause you know you got a whole world to change But understand who you got to change first

Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

The moment is now and we cant get it back from the grave.

Then you know. You know what it's like to love someone like you love yourself and lose them.

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...

Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.

I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

Maybe there will always be a market for the regular comic books because you can read [them] at your own pace. You can save them, collect them, [then] go back and read them again.