Tour is disgusting, actually, I have no idea how people do it. Your brain would go to rot, unless you really, really worked hard at making sure it didn't.

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.

We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days before the tour. And it feels good to try these songs.

Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being in love with these Dutch paintings over the last several years.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time.

I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself