I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.

The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.

I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.

I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.