So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

I hate hateful people.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

Don’t judge people for their success or what they have today, when you don’t know their past.

...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet.

There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described...I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those.