Id just like to prove to myself that Im all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. Id also like to prove that to a couple of other people.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

When I run on the beach, it's always in slow motion. That's just how I roll.

Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces.

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

High school and equality are forever incompatible.