Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.

When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

What matter most is not the sin. The moment of repentance: go and sin no more.

Think positively.Always focus on the positive side of any situation.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

A burdened heart doesn't equate to a lack of faith. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can heal with a simple command. The burden comes from wondering if that's His will and may it be done.

Even though Kate had only known Hale for a little more than two years, she had seen him in a lot of situations.

Before me, there were no moonsaults, there were no Litacanranas!

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.