I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations.

A good quote is worth a thousand words.

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

I lead my life as normal.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

Power is not found in muscles

I am here not to save money but to make more of it.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

there are the non-believers, make believers and true believers!