I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a secure way.
I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.
Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.
And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.
I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before things get too manic.
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.
