I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Friedrich von Schiller

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been -- what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal -- needs to be protected from people.

Susan Sontag

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.

Richelle Mead

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

Tadao Ando

What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.

Proverb

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

Rita Dove

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Stephen Hawking

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Robert Morgan

It was not that he was feckless, more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out feck.

Neil Gaiman

Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.

Susan Sontag