My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.

A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

By changing—we become what we always wanted to be.

Were you lying?""I never lie, " he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

There are griefs which grow with years.

Be confident. There is no one who is not attracted to confidence. Women dig it. Men love it. Confidence adds hair, drops ten pounds, and takes off ten years.

Outside is the joy of the drop. Inside is the joy of the ocean.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.