You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter.

A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

Be brave. Don't be afraid to be stupid.

When you think about it, we’re all different people all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.

Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.

We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?

For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.

At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

Take your beliefs into your everyday life. Practice what you preach. Self-observe. Correct. Try. Keep trying. Never give up.

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.

I'm not really one for regrets.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.

America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.

The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are.