I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.