"My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car."

"I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation."

"I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there."

"There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me."

"Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?"

"The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality."

"Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else."

"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."