It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Don’t resent the sky for its storms

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio.

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.

Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.