I think it's about time the world embraced its geekiness and stopped trying to be cool. It's just...you have way more fun as a geek than as a cool person.

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.

Just because I don't deserve her doesn't mean I won't fight to keep her.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

Our role models today 60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be