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" You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. "

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" 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music. "

" I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling. "

" When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use. "

" I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile. "

" Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that. "

" Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating. "

" I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you. "

" I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel. "

" I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! "

" Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. "

" I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space. "

" Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense. "

" I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "

" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "

" It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist. "

" I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains. "

" You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on. "

" I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together. "

" If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character. "

" I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. "

" It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing. "

" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "

" I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash. "

" I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. "

" My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions. "

" I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though. "

" I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.' "

" There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation. "

" Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. "

" Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated. "