Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.
I didn't have any great job prospects.
It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
You never know when you're making a memory.
I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk down the street. You know? Because that's the best thing about when you're happy. It's just one little thing that makes you happy, and you're making friends. The kind of thing I can do is capture this moment.
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
Each person assesses each other person's credibility on different dimensions, because people are strong and weak in different things.
Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.