In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.

True joy blossoms in the garden of inner peace.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!