It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.

I think it's good to have the alone time. Well, I kind of have to, because I have to be alone in order to work, so I have alone time. And then I go on tour and I have being-around-people time.

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.

Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.

Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."