Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

Dogs are us, only innocent.

If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.

Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.

A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.

So live your life that those who speak ill of you will not be believed.

Suddenly I had to laugh. It was like realising you definitely need to projectile vomit when you thought you had it under control in some imprisoning form of public space.

I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

Life is not like a box of chocolates unless there's a few turds in the box.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it.

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

It simply works. You do it twice a year. Who cares? And it balances my smoking and drinking.

I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.