I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

Something had been buried that was not yet dead.