It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

All women are natural born espionage agents.

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.

A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.

It takes years to make an overnight success.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

The key thing is to get that one splash - that one song or that one video for a song - that catches people's eyes. Because it's all digital content now.

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

I want to be great at what I do. I don't want to be just an average rapper.

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'

Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.