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.

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.

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.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

If you're focused, you can't get bored.

You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

I've got a great collection of photography.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.