“Fate is not going to come looking for you. You are going to have to find or created it yourself.”

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”

“Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing … you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually — mostly — the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.”

“You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.”

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”

“If you stand under a mountain and look up, you will get a bad pain in the neck. If you look at the ground and take one step, and then another step, then you come to a little bump. You think of how to climb over it; then you find a gap and you jump over it and you go on like that, one step at a time, and suddenly, you find yourself standing on top of the mountain.”

“You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.”

“To start loving yourself, go to the place you find your greatest power.”

“There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.”

“If you have formed a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself and see how you would do.”