When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself.

In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.

My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.