If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.

The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear

I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business

He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it?

What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.