Sometimes, readers, when they're YOUNG, are GIVEN, SAY, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that SOMEBODY who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, NECESSARILY.

I had very little FEAR about it, but basically, my straight FRIENDS talked me out of it. I think they thought as I was bisexual, there was no need to. But it's AMAZING how much more complicated it became because I didn't COME out in the early days. I often wonder if my career would have TAKEN a different path if I had.

I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them COMPLICATED. I just make them SIMPLE and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.

I'm not a politician because I'm an ARTIST. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated QUESTION. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy SITUATIONS.

Reversing deforestation is COMPLICATED; planting a TREE is SIMPLE.

I love the CHALLENGE of TAKING these REALLY complicated subjects and TRYING to humanise them.

Poaching is a very COMPLICATED, multi-layered PROBLEM.

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a GOOD person in many ways. And I think you often have to be CAREFUL that PRAYER can seem superficial, because it's a very COMPLICATED thing to LOVE your neighbor as yourself.

A big budget STUDIO film is slower, they've GOT so much to CREATE AROUND you. Everything is more complicated.

My family is big, complicated, and beautiful - and keeps me smiling and whole. It's so important to have family, whether it's biological family, GOOD FRIENDS, foster families, or a group of aunties who are raising you. The idea of FEELING isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world ALONE WOULD be heartbreaking.

Joe Carroll had a certain black comedy to him. But I think it's LOVELY PLAYING a MAN who, in his heart and SOUL, is a GENTLE man. And he's wounded and complicated.

We must resist the PRESSURES of others to soundbite our COMPLICATED, nuanced EXPERIENCES.

As COMPLICATED and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European UNION would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult ROLE to play in the world.