I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

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

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity totally and without reserve.

I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

I'm hitting it better than last year. The putting is getting close now, too.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t know, one could create a library.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.