I lead my life as normal.

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

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

Love the wife of your youth. Never abandon her.

He'd grown eager to hand off his things, as if the weight of his possessions kept him tethered to this earth, and by giving them away, he could snip those strings.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

You just may be a redneck if your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.