I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it.

The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.

I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

I really don't see myself in the Europa League and don't want to play in it. I couldn't care less about winning the trophy.

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

My brother and I are best friends.

John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

But if Satan speaks sometimes, God keep silent, always. We have to find the answers alone.

It looks like they [the Republicans] don't want to win if it means winning with [Donald] Trump. They must really hate Trump out there.