My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

I was thinking - if we get a cell with a trouser press, we can make cheese toasties.

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts

Every morning, look in the mirror and affirm positive words into your life.

Bullshit. You can paint with a fork, you can kill with a fork. A fork is a tool. Don't let yourself be confined by the definitions of others.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.

Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

The only way that we may overcome the world is by coming unto Christ. And coming to Christ means walking away from the world.