“You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.”

Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

A trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart’s response to that mystery is faith.

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate.

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.

The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind.

I grew up in that age, and it was memorable. But I’m down with all of it. Chuck D or Danny Brown? I feel comfortable with all of them. Word up, kid! Word up, man!

I’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.

Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.