Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.

There is a certain calling in your life from the heart of God

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.

I still hope to kill Fischer

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Sidwell, Parker and Duff are all coming back to pastures old, as the saying goes