Ps. I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own.

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.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

“If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.”

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

I'm more comfortable in heels than I am in sneakers.