I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

If the audience are leaving in ambulances, you know you've done a good job

All songs are about shagging, you can't deny it

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

If you've got a CD that's not working, just wipe it on your trousers, and if you're not wearing any trousers, put some on

Teenage dreams so hard to beat

I just want to hear something I haven't heard before

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.

The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

In answer, she took his hand and placed it on her chest. Right over her heart. 'You're in, Cade Morgan. Only you.

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.