I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.

To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.

Creativity is mistakes.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

Originality is for people with short memories

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

I always say to people if you want to see what Britain looks like, watch Gogglebox. It's brilliant and funny and warm and clever.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

I have a lot of money.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

I do think that Christians will make music that oh should have some of the grandest visions of why we should create music and why we should seek to create beauty world.

Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around.

Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.