When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.

The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.

We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

You have absolute control over your thoughts, and guarding your mind is a choice.

You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts.

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.