The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.

An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a #‎ controlfreak , it's hard.

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.