I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

To rally every black sheep is my goal.

The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.

Katrina was one of those things that rips the clothes off of the guy who keeps saying he's a saint, and underneath you see that he's a monster.

I have given you independence, now go and preserve it.

If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.