Take one day off and eat whatever you want, as much as you want

Measurement = Motivation

Make it competitive

“Take 5” Go 5 consecutive days for momentum

Have 3-4 motivators for a goal

Avoid white carbohydrates -bread -cereal -rice (includes brown rice) -pasta -potato -tortilla -fried food

4 hours between meals

Eat Protein, Eggs, Beef, Chicken, Fish, Pork, Lentils, Beans, Vegetables, Legumes

When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

You never fail until you stop trying.

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe.

Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.

I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

It's a simple thing to break a string, but you cannot hope to break a rope.

I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late.

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality with this cell phone is great.

They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.