"Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason."

“I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.”

Source : "I've finally beaten my mental health demons" by Nick Owens, www.mirror.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

“A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.”

“I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature."”

“The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.”

“I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.”

“I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.”

Source : "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

“I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.”

“I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.”