"I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around."

“I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.”

“I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me”

“We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.”

“I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?”

Source : "Marks & Spencer's Stuart Rose: 'I'm like a £3.49 chicken jalfrezi! It's got punch, it's got zest, and it's just fabulous to be with'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

“Wishes are recollections coming from the future.”

“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.”

“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”

Source : "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". Book by Steven Covey, 1989.

“Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.”

Source : Aaron T. Beck (1967). “Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects”, p.36, University of Pennsylvania Press