My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

Good rock music always tends to be around.

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.

I think that things happen for a reason.

What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

To understand the new birth is to have a revelation of its mystery

There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. It's like putting money into a stock that's going down.

People say what we're doing is holding out when in reality the teams are trying to crush the draft market because they don't want to pay fair market value.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.