When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

I am quite fussy about clothes.

and when we speak we are afraidour words will not be heardnor welcomedbut when we are silentwe are still afraidSo it is better to speakrememberingwe were never meant to survive

Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects.-pg 129

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.