The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.

As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.