No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.

I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.