"I think all immigrants and refugees are preoccupied with memories to one degree or another. But again, this question of how much to remember and how much to forget is really aggravated for those who have lost a tremendous amount."

“This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease! Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.”

“All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.”

“Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.”

“The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.”

Source : "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 07, 2002.

“Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin”

“It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.”

“I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.”

“I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.”