I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.

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

To make one think is to change a generation, to build one thought is to grow a better world

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.

A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing.

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

We know that investment causes growth. But it is also true that growth causes investment.

Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.

If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

Brains aren't designed to get results. They go in DIRECTIONS.