I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.

If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

Praying is the power of much more grace.

For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Talking with three people deeply is better than talking with thirty people superficially.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.