I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

Man can transform his life, when he renewed his thinking.

This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

For 3 Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person.

Harder he works, the luckier he gets.

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.