There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.