Teenage dreams so hard to beat

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

If the audience are leaving in ambulances, you know you've done a good job

All songs are about shagging, you can't deny it

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

If you've got a CD that's not working, just wipe it on your trousers, and if you're not wearing any trousers, put some on

I just want to hear something I haven't heard before

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

Climate change is a global commons problem.

Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.