I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

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

Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

Progress occurs one apology at a time.

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.