I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

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 experiences you get from failures early in life, will carry you for the rest of your life.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

A strong woman strengthens women. An empowered woman empowers women. When one woman rises we are all elevated.

Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

Never confuse motions with action.

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.

Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?