"O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting."

“I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.”

“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.”

Source : "What Makes a Gentleman?". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. October 11, 2011.

“What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.”

“It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.”

“Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.”

“Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that youve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.”

“As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.”

Source : "Record painter". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2008.

“Today the vacuum [of space] is not regarded as empty. It is a sea of dynamic energy, like the spray of foam near a turbulent waterfall.”