Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

A lot of guys have better genes but if you work hard and consistently, you can outperform them.

Always work the ref's blind side.

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.