If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

And be grateful that you’re a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what’s between her ears.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.

The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Do what you LOVE to do, and do it so well that those who come to see you do it will bring others to watch you do it again and again and again.

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.