"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

“Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.”

“I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.”

“The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.”

“If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?”

“Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it).”

“Belgium's not a hotpot of international football”

“When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.”

“I like to watch people. For example, people at the airport... What is interesting about them is that they dont know what they are like. People at airports are the most brilliant actors in the world, because their attention is elsewhere, and they are idiosyncratic. I like to imitate people. I walk behind them and imitate their backs.”