Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.
When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.
In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.
If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?
Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.
I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
Deep down, fundamentally, we are the 'unborn'. We never came into being and we never go out of being. All of these coming and goings are just pulses in the pattern
I'm definitely the first no. 1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.