If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

You only live once, but can be born twice. Then, you can live forever.

When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.

Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

I believe in God, but I am not sure to trust Him so much.

I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.

I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

Spare the person but lash the vice.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.