I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the fact I've remained close to everyone I've ever worked with.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

You think I look like a teletubby?

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed