Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.