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“When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and started going to this folk club in Auckland. My dad [Barry Andrews] was in punk and post-punk bands, so I guess it was a side of music I hadn't really listened to before - the really narrative form of songwriting.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.”
Source : "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010. 
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“If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.”
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“Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.”
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“I have to say one of the lessons I learned is to always be prepared.”
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“For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast.”
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“No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but can only ponder. And no matter how we explain ourselves to someone else, no matter how open we are, there is always still something inexplicable, something hidden and unknown in us, too.”
Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!”
