Coincidence is a wonderful thing.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.

Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white." OK who's going to identify that?

Pooh, " said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know, " said Pooh humbly.

Love always doesn't come across as bad, but it always has two sides.

To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.