Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.

I think it's fair to say that I don't pick up languages. If anything, I roll around in them gracelessly and pray that something sticks.

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.