An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.