I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

I would like better colouration of my legs, like a little less of that English mottled purple thing that makes it necessary to wear tights all the time.

Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

God, who am I?

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Justice is truth in action.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

I would have to say that my style is simple, with a splash of swagger and a little sartorial as well.