I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
I emphasize... That the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.
I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people.
In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.
Who suffers from diarrhea, is not afraid of the dark.
A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.
The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
People don't want to talk about trade, it's safer to talk about how best to grow your crop, keep your head down and pray.
People out west love country music.
By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.
I don't know what record company would sign a 45-year-old former 80s pop star.
I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Silence was never written down.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
