Year Quotes

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids’ show called ‘Let’s See.

In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.

My father gave me some Jack Nicklaus MacGregor clubs when I was six years old. He cut down some of the shafts, but they were men’s clubs, so they were heavy.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.