I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

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

There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room...

Like two side to a coin, there are two sides to life: your reason and emotional facets.

I am an atheist. I don't believe in Zeus.

I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.

Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily.

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

Realism is a corruption of reality.