It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.

I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.

People don't want the truth, ' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.

Capitalism needs war.

If you do it in the bookies, it's a bet. . . . If you pay some 23-year-old in an Armani suit two hundred grand to go to the window for you, it's a derivative.

I do not think my life would make a very interesting book, ' I say. 'I feel I can speak with a certain amount of authority here.

We may kill each other someday.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.