Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orc

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.

Meat is dirty. I wouldn't touch a hot dog without a condom on it

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

I think every job that I've done to this point has had something new to challenge me.

Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.