If I'd known it was going to take 25 years, I'd have started earlier.

There are too many games now where there's too much structure and not enough of the chaos.

Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement.

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.

Why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.

You are going to die. Your physical body will disintegrate. You cannot help that.

Life isn’t about waiting for the time to come. It’s all about making the most of things in the time that is given to you.

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wanted to squirm.