In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.