The spirit of punk-cabaret is that you feel that you can truly be all of who you are.

That is the spirit of the music: to not leave anyone out, to be inclusive.

Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.

We are a lot more alike than we are different and it's important to remember that.

The spirit of what we do is that you do what you feel and when you feel it and not feel you have to be something you're not: you have to be honest to yourself.

I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.

We were like two atoms in one molecule, hydrogen and oxygen. Both explosive alone, but the source of everything when we came together.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.