With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.

DATO'S LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification.

Robert Dato

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

Mary Doria Russell

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Philip James Bailey

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

Bernardo Bertolucci

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, from

Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

Howard Davies

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Chinese Proverb

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.

Shinichi Suzuki

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

Paul Ryan

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we ar

Henry David Thoreau

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Peace Pilgrim