Quotes from Peter Gabriel

In some ways, I'm just a visual person.

With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.

Fear, she's the mother of violence.

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.

Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.

There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.

Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is something that everybody has in the course of living.

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

Snowden's revelations shocked the world and made it very clear why we need to have some way to look over those who look over us. With increasing terrorist attacks, security is critical, but not without any accountability or oversight.

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.

You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.