"What we have to realize is that when the inner voice gives us guidance, it's always going to be for our highest good - and it's always going to bring us more joy than we think."

“Being baldplate is an unfailing sex magnet.”

“Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.”

“It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.”

“If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.”

“Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.”

“The pause is a part of the walk.”

“I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.”

“I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.”

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.