Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.

Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

Some women's arms are placed of exile

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

Age does not mean wisdom, Do not follow the old man off the cliff.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me.