I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.

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

I don't function without a heart, he said angrily and thenadded under his breath as he grabbed at the front of his Tshirt, He's right here.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.

One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.

I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?

Love is life believing in itself

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.