I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

All men can see these tacticsWhereby I master

Within the beautiful struggle of a cocoon all butterflies are made.

I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

We have the best congressmen that money can buy.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them