David Gray Quotations

We're focusing more on the botanicals as opposed to more the fruit-driven infusions.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

It's amazing, the amount of detail and thought that goes into just an average day. Between the things you see on the news, or on the subway, or whatever, it all gets in there. You sort of shut most of it out, but it all goes in.

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want: I don't want to just repeat myself.

I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

I find everything a struggle.

Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds — large, light, and fugitive...

October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don't it just look so pretty This disappearing world

I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.

Wonder in everything No matter how great or small... Same thing that's scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin... There's a time to search for understanding Sometimes you just got to sing New horizons, new horizon within

Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!

There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

We are already seeing an increase in milk consumption.

The real issue is, nobody wants to say 'No'; we want to come back with a constructive response.

She was kind of a timid dog and now she's very active. (She) talks to people and wants to greet people.

Friday night I'm going nowhereAll the lights are changing green to redTurning over TV stationsSituations running through my headWell looking back through timeYou know it's clear that I've been blindI've been a foolTo ever open up my heartTo all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridiculeSaturday I'm running wildAnd all the lights are changing red to greenMoving through the crowd I'm pushingChemicals all rushing through my bloodstreamOnly wish that you were hereYou know I'm seeing it so clearI've been afraidTo tell you how I really feelAdmit to some of those bad mistakes I've made

Friday night I'm going nowhere All the lights are changing green to red Turning over TV stations Situations running through my head Well looking back through time You know it's clear that I've been blind I've been a fool To ever open up my heart To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule Saturday I'm running wild And all the lights are changing red to green Moving through the crowd I'm pushing Chemicals all rushing through my bloodstream Only wish that you were here You know I'm seeing it so clear I've been afraid To tell you how I really feel Admit to some of those bad mistakes I've made

For this particular location, people come here and it's really about wine,

It can be a touchy issue for some people,

It gives us kind of a foot up,

Most of the new developments in the area are in our residential zone. In the last two years, we've gone from 800 students to over 1,000.

There are a whole lot of these things to be resolved. I don't know whether or not this deal will survive that process.

We can't say anything about the negotiations until the freeholders formally vote on it, ... Hopefully they will do it at their next regular meeting.

When you play against someone that fast you gotta give them their space. They're gonna be coming after you, so you've just got to make sure you give yourself enough time to close down any space with them and not give them a head start, cause that's where you'll get caught.

And the film, This Year's Love (which Gray scored), supplied some of the money for it. Things just happened just when we needed them.

It's not my song any more. It's very much the audience's song, so if I'm feeling generous I'll wheel it out one night.

It's often a fine line what increase you can pass along because if you go up too much, we'll lose the job.

That record companies are crap, insane, huge and messy non-decision making entanglements is just a fact. That's not the reason why things don't work. You've got to make the right record.

The Canadian industry is meeting now to try to figure out how to respond positively and with one voice.

I only want to sing things that I can feel and if I don't have a feeling for a song ... then I'll pass it over,

I know his work can be extravagant, ... But the first track on 'Want One' is one of the most astonishing things that has come out in years. And I wanted to work with his scope. He has more than one string in his bow.

I'd heard the first track on the Rufus Wainwright record (Want One), Oh What A World, which is worth the admission fee alone, ... It's just the most audacious thing I've heard in a long time. It's on a sort of Pet Sounds level. It's refreshing to hear that kind of thing. So Marius' philosophy is very much 'more is more,' whereas mine is 'less is more.'

I don't want to be saying we nearly won again, because the margin of defeat does not matter,

An aircraft was sent out early this morning and saw a light diesel sheen which is heading northeast away from the island.