If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore.