I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

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

Stop bargaining with your fears and start challenging yourself to discover your extraordinary hidden abilities. Fears and doubts are your enemies of progress. So why dare to bargain with them?

I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.