Neil Gaiman // "I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. So that’s my wish... Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever."
Jean-Luc Godard // "Are you in a film or in reality?"
Nick Cave // "I would like to start by thanking you all for the support you have given me over recent years and I am both grateful and flattered by the nominations that I have received for best male artist. The air play given to...my latest album...has not gone unnoticed and has been greatly appreciated. So again my sincere thanks. Having said that, I feel that it’s necessary for me to request that my nomination...be withdrawn and furthermore any awards or nominations for such awards that may arise in later years be presented to those who feel more comfortable with the competitive nature of these award ceremonies. I myself, do not. I have always been of the opinion that my music is unique and individual and exists beyond the realms inhabited by those who would reduce things to mere measuring. I am in competition with no-one. My relationship with my muse is a delicate one at the best of times and I feel that it is my duty to protect her from influences that may offend her fragile nature. She comes to me with the gift of song and in return I treat her with the respect I feel she deserves...in this case this means not subjecting her to the indignities of judgement and competition. My muse is not a horse and I am in no horse race and if indeed she was, still I would not harness her to this tumbrel...this bloody cart of severed heads and glittering prizes. My muse may spook! May bolt! May abandon me completely! So once again...I appreciate the zeal and energy that was put behind my last record, I truly do and say thank you and again I say thank you but no...no thank you."
Ernest Hemingway // "I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.'"
Nina Simone // "I had spent many years pursuing excellence...now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important."
Patricia Highsmith // "This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life."
David Bowie (& Bing Crosby) // "The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."
Bill Murray // "The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself."
J.D. Salinger // "I think that one of these days...you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you."
Charles Bukowski // "Some people simply search out unhappiness, they'll scrounge it out in any given situation taking any whim, any simple error and then becoming hateful, vengeful. Don't they realize that there's so little time? And to mutilate it like this... There's never ever any way to recover all that was wasted."
George Harrison // "I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything."
Hugh Laurie // "It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any."
