"The ear is the avenue to the heart."

“The road is more important than the goal.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Interview with Marc Masters and Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. March 19, 2010.

“The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.”

Source : "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

“I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.”

“I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.”

“"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."”

“Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.”

“I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what I have.”

“Dammit... Don't you dare ask God to help me.”