It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.

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

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life.

Obamacare is going to destroy everything we know as a nation.

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.