Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.

...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

I just wanted it to be American.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

I just didn't like going to school.

Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

Whatever is cheap became cheap by treating us badly in the past, but is priced to deliver superior returns.

We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.