I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

To rally every black sheep is my goal.

The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.

Talk in order that I may see you.