Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.