The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.
When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.
[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.
I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.
I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.
Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.
The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.
Childhood is but change made gay and visible.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.