Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that’s how long it’s going to take, guys.

Yes, I’d give my life to lay my head tonight
On a bed of California star

Sometimes I wake up laughing when I have a great dream. And sometimes I have nightmares - and I hate them.

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

If the judging criteria or the voting criteria here was to vote people through for managing to sing every note out of tune, you would win tonight.

That was exactly identical to a nightmare I had last week.

Vanessa, if anyone ever asks me in my life what my nightmares look and sound like, I’m gonna refer to that.

Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.

T'was the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff he called Bush evil the Great Satan called him a war monger. Basically the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war but I could not. The North was mad and blind would not let us govern ourselves and so the war came.

Every night I go over what I did in the day in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds I fancy if Emperors hear the truth that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

People often ask why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.