I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.

Destiny is what is happening to you right now.

Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate.

Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute

A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.

No matter what level of your ability you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.