I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

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

Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.

You pray in your distress and in your need

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.

A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.

I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers.

And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.