My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on.

We can only prosper where we are.

I love being on tour I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it I love it.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me

Mercy, it's the revolution and I'm in my bathrobe!

I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.