I knew of course that trees and plants had roots stems bark branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Nature is so powerful so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

It is not light that we need but fire it is not the gentle shower but thunder. We need the storm the whirlwind and the earthquake.

Come forth into the light of things let nature be your teacher.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Writing has laws of perspective of light and shade just as painting does or music. If you are born knowing them fine. If not learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

Ah reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

In essence String Theory describes space and time matter and energy gravity and light indeed all of God's creation... as music.

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet but something's going wrong.

Music is my shining light my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Although I am basically self taught I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour light and shadow.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

For me singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light out of the darkness.

I like movies about longing and desperation and dark and light things stories about people struggling to raise children and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker it felt like dying and going to heaven.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies but movies none the less.

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

There's definitely a large fan base for the 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter' movies that need their next fix.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.