You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can’t choose to be unaffected by it.

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will..

Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage..

My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots..

What is good for society is also good for business..

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money..

I'm never shaken or stirred..

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires..

Beneath every history, another history..

Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it..

When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence..

Death, only, renders hope futile..

I'd rather make music than tour..

Don't make much ado about nothing..

I will count to 10 before tweeting..

There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you sho….

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all..

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so..

I am not anti-English, and I never was..

Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life..

Death: the grand perhaps..