Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.

A good quote is worth a thousand words.

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

I lead my life as normal.

I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations.

It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.

It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Cartooning is an honorable thing

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.

It’s easier to be God than to see God.

You treat me like a dog and you expect me to smile? You remind me of a jackass.

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.