"I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad."

“I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.”

Source : Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.160, Shambhala Publications

“Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.”

“Babyface is definitely a big inspiration.”

Source : "Vanessa Laker Meets Taio Cruz: The Interview". Interview with Vanessa Laker, vanlaker.wordpress.com. September 11, 2010.

“The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.”

“Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.”

“That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my way from one place to another. I have changed lives. My life now is as black and white as night and day; a life of fierce struggle under the sun, and peaceful reflection under the night sky. I feel as though I am floating on a raft far, far away from any world I ever knew.”

“I think being self-taught is the only way of really learning things, because you have to question everybody. You don't simply absorb axioms or so-called truths like they are rules. You have to test them, and you need to reflect on them, to consider the effect they create. So, you have very significant opinions about things, because they come out from your own reflections.”

“Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.”