I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment.

Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal.

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

Love awakens the spirit and the soul.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.

Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.