I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sangWhen life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

...the pleasure of finally making a clean break into misery after always dangling above it's canyon...

A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

Vision = Focus / Focus = Attention / Attention = Action /Action = Results / Consistent Results = Destiny

If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.