to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

The question isn't whether or not to censor artists who espouse misogynistic views. The question is whether or not we support them as listeners and consumers.

You've been here before, you already know how it goes, you chose this, you know, it's supposed to be over

What man didn't enjoy a beautiful woman curled up in his lap, even if she did treat him like a scratching post every time she woke up?

...there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go...

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I don't really know what the dream role would be. That's a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you're immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect