Hope is what makes the human condition liveable

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

Everyday is a gift and a very special day

The best teacher is very interactive.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.