Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain the sound of wind in a primeval wood and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature 'human' might be the greater insult.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but like them they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

You can have great sequences with music but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored but you're like 'So what?'

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it even amidst great pop music.

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music great melodies great hooks. But on top of it it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit swagger to the game.

Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff I love classical music and I needed a time-out.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers like Frank Sinatra and myself we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written we go back to the greatest songs.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world in a self-constructed ghetto.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now 25 years later we're not only putting out our own music but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

And you have a record company behind it this is a key too you need people to fight for your records at least a little bit. So if you have a great song it's catchy and you've got a little bit of help I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.