Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.

I get nervous before I conduct a concert, but then you just go out there and do it.

It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so.

When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true.

The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins.

It was no secret joke that brought the smile and the sparkle in his eye, it was physics.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

That's a yellow card for Cazoria. So the next time he's involved in Europe, he won't be.

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.

You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.

If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.