Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

I don't perform. Seals perform.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.

People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all connected to animals playing in the field over there. People don't realise how gruesomely and fighteningly the animal gets to the plate.

As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.