"There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward."

“My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.”

“Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance”

“The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.”

“Am I worried? Sure, I'm worried. When it comes to the Olympics, it can't be a predictable finish.”

“Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.”

Source : James Agate (1944). “Ego 6: Once More the Autobiography of James Agate”

“I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.”

Source : "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

“You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.”

“If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.”