Ian Anderson Quotes

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing's impossible.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I feel like I learned that I am so much stronger than I ever thought I was, not just emotionally, but physically.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.