When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd, but now it is de rigueur. I'm sure it's my input.

‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous stylist - who travels with a Birkin bag and minimal accoutrement and somehow looks cool.

The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.

A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.

Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!

All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt!

You've only got one life and you have to live it. Take every single lesson as a learning one.

My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.

Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.

And when I was in the trunk, I saw Jesus. And the Virgin Mary. And Ozzy Osbourne.

That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

Anything that can happen to someone else, can happen also to you.