I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other.

Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

The more that you follow me, the more I get lost

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

Books are only half our job

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.

Do nothing which is of no use.

No matter how busy you are make time to eat at a table. A desk is not a table.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.