I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

A good quote is worth a thousand words.

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

I lead my life as normal.

I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations.

Life is like a rugby ball. You never know where it bounces next.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.

Don't be angry, Finnula had said, be smart.

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

The inner eye does not see upon command.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!