Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people’s intellect or wisdom at your own risk.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

Culture clash is terrific drama.

I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.

I'll have my way, In my own time, I'll have my say, My star will shine...