Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we're alive! We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.

Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.