It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

Take my handand…feel the sandbeneath your aimless feettowards the sparkling waves

Look through the eyes of your highest self. What do you see?

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.

You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.