I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Those who don't plan will end up delaying their dreams, visions, and goals

Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?

No one wants to die with vacation time on the books.

One thing I can say for sure is that she was very clever. Not in the way others expect you to be – intelligent, witty and concise, but in the way people should be: creative and consistent.

Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

I'm proud of every woman, of every American, that makes her dreams come true.

Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.

There is always a reason. When I look back on things that really upset me at the moment, I can always see why it happened in retrospect.

Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.