Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

I don't like inherited wealth.

To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Power is making a statement about who you are.

I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.

Know not what you know, and see not what you see. [Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris.]

One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.