"I could make you read the entire quadrant exposition again...BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK."

“We have become so dependent on technology. I am not fond of technology myself, and I do not have a smart phone.”

“If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.”

“My view of ethics and of its priority is connected to my view that we are fundamentally relational beings - both the product of human interactions, as well as committed as part of the expression of our own humanity to various social involvements. I see ethics as having two places in the maintenance of these relational activities - first as providing the basic coinage of our interactions qua humans and second as mediating the various roles we assume as humans.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.”

“Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.”

“I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.”

Source : "Gold Medalist Bryan Clay Goes Beyond Reason for Games". Interview with Kiera Aaron, www.menshealth.com. April 23, 2012.

“Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.”

“I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.”