Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

Treat your advices like your money, don't give it to others unless they ask for it.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

When you use Tabasco in the marinade, it kind of infuses everything.

Just want to set the record straight. I'm single and I'm not going to get married!

I realize that if I were in that situation - living a hard life with people telling them they're not worthy of love - maybe I would be that strong and that brave.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.