For me, everything has always been an accident.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

I was thinking - if we get a cell with a trouser press, we can make cheese toasties.

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?

Troubles always seemed more severe after the sun went down. Even irrational worries and fears could seem perfectly logical at midnight.

The holy eye is the one who is able to see the extraordinary beauties of the ordinary days!

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.

Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re own.

Democrats don't have a lot of time to turn the party around.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.