Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.