If most of what we see via the media is not live, it must be edited: sifted for value, interpreted and re-presented for our convenience. We live in a disco, and the DJ is in charge.

What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer.

It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.

It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.