I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

If music be the food of love, play on.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

O, had I but followed the arts!

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

I never fall in love.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.