"In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured."

“Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.”

“We are far more like somebody watching ourselves than somebody in charge of ourselves.”

“I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.”

“Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.”

Source : Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.16, Faber & Faber

“She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.”

“There are a lot of movies made for nobody.”

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

“With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.”

Source : Source: alltheseletters.com

“Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.”