I don't get mad too much.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

I don't get mad too much.

I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy.

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

The true work of the martial arts is progress, not perfection.

While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.

I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

I had a deal with CNN and had no intention of going back to the music business, but you know, it's Lynyrd Skynyrd.

I'm a history dork and a sci-fi dork.

It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

Valor is superior to number.

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

Let me tell you the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat and every president since, Democrat and Republican, has stood closely with Israel.

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

I'm a player, the coaches coach.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

Every step towards your dream today is a step away from your regret tomorrow.

Generally, screenplays suck.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.