It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so.

I get nervous before I conduct a concert, but then you just go out there and do it.

Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.

When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true.

The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

Are not my days few? Cease then and let me alone that I may take comfort a little Before I go to the place from which I shall not return.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation

Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?

I entered this ring Randy Orton, Legend Killer. When all was said and done, I left as Randy Orton, Legend.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?