Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.