Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You can't lie to your soul.

Consciousness precedes phenomenon, and therefore consciousness can alter phenomenon.

If a guy was like, 'Let me serenade you,' and it was bad, and I had to lie about it - can't have it.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

An honest brew makes its own friends.

Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours.

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.