It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

I was thinking - if we get a cell with a trouser press, we can make cheese toasties.

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?

He turned to face the long, shadowy hall. There was no turning back now. Unless, of course, he decided to turn back.

Life isn't easy but if you don't try to improve it then it'll just get worse and worse till your no longer living.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.

Weight has never been a problem with me because when you dance, it just stays off.

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.

I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.