The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably.