Don't get me wrong I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me beauty lies in simplicity.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth beauty liberty and equality are of infinite value but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful I know it is wrong.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude or something in your performance is off you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing and maybe it's the Irish in me but my attitude is always like 'They'll figure me out soon.'

Even if people do wrong we're social animals so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art only being disagreed with.