A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad critic gives it away that they don't like you as a person. I quite like that as well, because it means that I've won.

Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.