"The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others."

“I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.”

Source : Charles Phillips, John Finlay (barrister-at-law.), Robert Emmet (1820). “The Speeches of Charles Phillip: Esquire, Delivered at the Bar and on Various Occasions, in Ireland and England”, p.272

“Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar”

“We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.”

“I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.”

Source : "Talking About Fairy Tales with Lily Cole". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. May 30, 2012.

“There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.”

“I don't like a lot of rehearsing.”

“In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.”

“If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.”