I hope I inspire children to make films.

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

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place...

Look at the people around you. Some Inspire you, some Perspire you. Be with those that build Energy in you.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.

The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.

I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.