I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again.

Live life with enthusiasm.

Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things

In the Army when we had judo classes, out of the class of 27 just me and another guy graduated. I grew to enjoy it because I knew I could do it well. I tried to do everything well.

Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.

I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.