I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

And in uttering thatExcellently executed truthYou become an artist too

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

A fart is just your arse applauding.

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

My Paintings are Battles.

The public is often right during the trends, but wrong at both ends

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

Time flies whether you are having fun or not.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

You whites make all the ammunition.