It is the nature and the advantage of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

If you don't know how to die don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over the wound is closed and healed done with.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me it was all about jazz.

When I moved to New York I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage talking to the audience looking at them and smiling that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

Music will always be my No. 1 passion but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.