My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.

It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.