Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.

The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear

I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in the world.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The world is a Bridge, pass over it, but build no houses upon it. He who hopes for a day, may hope for eternity; but the World endures but an hour. Spend it in prayer for the rest is unseen.

I would remind people on the planet that this is the only one we have, and we need to take care of it.

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

I think that's all just a bit of luck that I've gotten to do such different stuff. I don't know if it's a good thing to not do something, just 'cause it's too similar to what you've done.

The movies are celluloid hemorrhoids. No, worse: They're celluloid Bon Jovi.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.