Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.

That's what perfect means. You're finished.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible.

Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.

I make music because I like making music.

How dismal is progress without publicity.