I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Brian Friel

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Chanakya

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

Dan Hawkins

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a glass that ran;Pleasure, with pain for leaven;Summer, with flowers that fell;Remembrance, fallen from heaven,And madness risen from hell;Strength without hands to smite;Love that endures for a breath;Night, the shadow of light,And Life, the shadow of death.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Anthony Hope

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Paul Cezanne

Evolution never looks to the future.

Richard Dawkins

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Johann von Goethe

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

Freddie Mercury