Id gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear. – Florence Welch
Try a thing you havent done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. – Virgil Thomson
Without philosophy there can be no true poetry: without it pretty verses may, indeed, be made; but in order to be really a poet it is essential to be also, up to a certain point, a philosopher. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)
I think its an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because lifes been rough for you. Thats a really admirable way to go through your life. – Anna Paquin
Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if youd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. Its more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. – Ray Bradbury
