No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.
The best investment opportunities are often scary.
Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not reward comfort.
The most treasured asset in investment management is a steady hand at the tiller.
History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.
Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.
I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.
Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.
Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clarks record (as youngest champion).
We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.