I am the last of Britain's stately homos.

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.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.