I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.

What you do is less important than the difference you make.

It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember that it is pronounced with something close to 'ʌoo'.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

It's easier to surrender to confinement.

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

A photograph can look any way.

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

If it hurts, DON'T DO IT AGAIN.

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.