"When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are."

“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'”

“This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.”

“They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I don't really believe in targets, because my next target is to beat Stoke City”

“We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.”

“The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.”

Source : Bert Hellinger, Gabriele Ten Hövel (1999). “Acknowledging what is: Conversations with Bert Hellinger”, p.162, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

“The moment you value yourself, the whole world values you.”