If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.

Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

I owe a lot to this club and the supporters who were always there for me. They supported me even when I was suspended. (on his former club CSKA Sofia)

I have no regrets about my life.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.

When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.