People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound