I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter. Because I'd have to be answering things that I didn't really know anything about, and I'd rather just wait for the dust to settle and then say something.

If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

I'm online, therefore I am.

My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel.

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

I can't seem to recall if I've ever had amnesia before.

My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

Is it a lucky break if you get run over by an ambulance?

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of movement of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that's important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.