"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit."

"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."

"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."

"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."

"I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black."

"I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born."

"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."