I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional.

Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.

I bought a blimp just so I could get a bunch of wankers excited over nothing, what did you do with your weekend?

I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about.

I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.