The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

Different is not wrong.

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

Rain on your body burned my heart. (Pluie sur ton corps - Brûla mon coeur.)

Satan does not care what you know. He only fears what you understand and apply. In fact, his assignment is to hinder your understanding.

Write what you want, everything else is gravy

There's no such thing as an open draw. At least for me - I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him - but for me there's no such thing as an open draw

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.

At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to another, from one venue to another, it can become longer.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.