Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s wrong most of the time.

There's no getting rid of you. You are already in my bloodstream and woven into the marrow of my bones.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot.

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

Drink from the stars and toss your hat over the moon.

Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha.

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.