"You really have to get to know the person's mental state. You have to understand what drives them and what motivates them."

“With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.”

“Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.”

“People can help us heal, can give us medicine, advice, many forms of help, but nobody can manage our minds for us.”

“I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.”

“Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.226, The Overlook Press

“Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.”

“With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.”

Source : Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.14, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

“I want to give [my records] all away before some fool plays disco at my funeral, and then the record gets stuck, and nobody can tell, and the service goes on forever!”