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

I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost and a price to be paid.

If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Man is but a reed the most feeble thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

When we think of the major threats to our national security the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores one from nature not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything even nature.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed I agree with you.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.

I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years and eight albums you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.

I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.