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.

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

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

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

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

Wealth can be multiplied through work

Cos every breath is unbearably painful

Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Me as a backup center? Hell no.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

Knowledge is a process, not a product.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.