I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.

And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.