Tim Minchin

I just want people to hold themselves to account about what they think more, because I strongly believe that the way to live a moral life is to not allow yourself to have beliefs which are easy but which don't make sense.

Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

It was - I'm very didactic in my lyrics, but I've always been drawn to mock my own emotions, and so I write this very lyric-heavy stuff, which suits theater and comedy much more than it suits pop.

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

It's about the audience - if they laugh and clap, you feed off that, and if they don't, you doubt everything you've ever done.

Given that everyone's got a voice, it's the age of the democratisation of information through digital technology. That means women can rise up, and people of colour can rise up, and these stories are much more present to us. And that's great.

I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.