When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.

Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang." I've read Simone Elkeles books. I know how this whole garage as a front thing works.

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

I've gotten incredibly lucky with the people I've gotten to work with. It's made my mind better, and it's made me a better person.