“Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I’ve always played live.”

Bad things happen sometimes.

I didn’t lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

I’ve learned to really just say no. If I don’t want to do something, I won’t do it. There’s nothing that can make me do anything.

When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it’s almost inexplicably awful.

I’m blind without my glasses.

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don’t make any money, then you change things.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

Prison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

It’s good to play 100 per cent live – no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

Mile high club, it’s got its ups and downs.

People weren’t buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

Maybe it won’t be cured, but you’ve got to take the medication you’re prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.