"The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles."

“I write a lot, poems and such, and when I look at it the next day, I can analyze what the problem is and find the solution. It's the same when I watch myself on the big screen, but first, my vanity has to go away and so I have to watch it ten times. But when it has gone, and I don't think my nose is too big and everything else, then I start analyzing, and I think it helps me to become a better person.”

“I don't know why I write. The honest answer is that I don't have an answer. I wouldn't die if I couldn't write fiction. Actually keel over and die - it's unlikely. But quite quickly writing has come to feel like the only thing I really know how to do. And I go a bit stir crazy if I don't write more or less every day. But that makes writing sound like a mood-regulator, a way to regulate anxiety or depression, and it doesn't really come down to that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.”

Source : "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Dublin, Ireland, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

“It's amazing. Being clearheaded for a show, for starters. Not being reflux-y because of the amount of beer you've drunk.”

Source : Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

“photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light ...”

Source : Berenice Abbott (1944). “A guide to better photography”

“The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.”

“Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.”

“Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.”