Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!

Yes I am a politician - I will promise you anything your little electorate heart desires - because you are my constituents, you are the informed voting public, and because I have no intention of keeping any promise that I make.

Politics has become absurdly, stupidly, restrictively partisan.

My goal is always to make something unpredictable that feels inevitable in the end. It's getting harder to do that. Audiences are so sophisticated and so smart.

I'm hoping that Abu Dhabi's first piece of street art will inspire the next generation of artists the same way that the discovery of subway art inspired me all those years ago.

Once you stop wanting to improve, you start to slide. And if you want to keep winning, if you want to stay at the top, that's not something you can afford to do.

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that person have to come up with something special, come up with something that is excellent material, so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it.

One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart.

I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

I'm going to be the next king of the Earth.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

I ski, I surf, I scuba dive... any sport that starts with an 's.'

That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!

I started my journey with 'Dooba Dooba.'

There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters.