The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'

To rally every black sheep is my goal.

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.

It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.

Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one.

A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!

She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.

I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.