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But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!

I want to reclaim who I am.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

People want transparency in government.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

Everybody wants to get along with everyone else in the sandbox. I'm that kind of kid, you know what I mean? That will never change about me.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16 I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

I'm busy gettin rich. I don't want trouble. I made enough for 2 niggas, boy, stunt double.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.