However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

Faces close, they breathed into each other, their bodies slick with water and sweat.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.