I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

all that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel as if you were living in heaven.

God is only God when he is acting as such.

There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.