"A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality."

“Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.”

“Many organizations have put off critical upgrades or new projects to make sure ICD-10 was survivable.”

“Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“A melody is not merely something you can hum.”

“No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it's even better.”

“That's why I started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.”

“The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept.”

“In the 1970s and a lot of the 1980s, we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield areas for growth of 1.75 per cent. The only thing growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of them.”

Source : Dennis Skinner during House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. December 8, 2005.