When you're famous you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

No means yes in grasshopper language.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!

All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

Never try and go on a solo mission on your own.

I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in.

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

I've got it all in here ultra violets, flying saucers, strawberry bootlace come on get involved.

My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.

Events are moving fast in my campaign, and yes, it's true that this morning I've dismissed my entire team of senior advisers. All of their positions will now be held by a man named 'Joe the Plumber.'

miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.