I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You can't lie to your soul.

The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they have different styles.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

We rise by lifting others.

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

Create more value than you capture.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.