In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.