I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."

No one wants to be some guy who puts records out about how good it is. That seems quite arrogant.

Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.

It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.

When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while

Don't work for something in Exchange, Work on something for a Change.

Your obstacles are always counting on you to be fearful and doubtful because those are their only chances of defeating you.

Nothing incites failure more than success.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.