I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other.

The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

The more that you follow me, the more I get lost

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

Open your heart. Don't be spiteful.

There is no cosmetic to gain a beauty like yours.

The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion.

Those that know, do not need explanations, and those that do not, would not understand any explanations.

Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.