My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel.

If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter. Because I'd have to be answering things that I didn't really know anything about, and I'd rather just wait for the dust to settle and then say something.

I'm online, therefore I am.

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

I can't seem to recall if I've ever had amnesia before.

My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

Is it a lucky break if you get run over by an ambulance?

Unbelief hardness human heart to be like a rock.

The beauty of soul is light within the spirit.

The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself.

....not today, not tomorrow....

Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit.

If I have a day off I will play golf.

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day.