"I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now ."

“I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.”

Source : Quoted in Edward Lucie-Smith Symbolist Art (1972).

“Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello”

“This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?”

“I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.”

“It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.”

“If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!”

Source : George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.559

“I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga.”

“Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!”