The design of 'Love Actually, ' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Get rich. Live life to the fullest. Destroy the world.

Be deliberate in your choices. We are created to do what we are called to do and what we are born to experience, not what we believe other people expect us to do. Your time is precious.

When we are a comfort and encouragement to others, we are sometimes surprised at how it comes back to us many times over.

Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.