I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

The more risk you can take upfront in life, the better off you will be later.

The most meaningful prayer is kindness.

Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.Proverb

If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.

I've got a new studio set up very much based around live mixing and also mixing analogue and digital systems. Inspired by the late King Tubby and Scientist.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.