People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.

I think you have to start taking a few risks and sometimes they don't pay off.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine.

I assumed office to bring the EU to a point from which there is no going back. Instead, I am having to unwind the EU to a certain extent.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source.

The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.