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.

I am quite fussy about clothes.

People are of 3 categories

Damnation is eternal. That’s the whole point. Otherwise, what good would it do you?

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Every plan is a house of cards.

God spent a little too much time on my nose.

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.