We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don't have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there's usually someone there to help you do that!

Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.

Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.

We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing.

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is.

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

The support I've gotten from my teammates has been great.

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

Enough experience will make you wise.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. Im not a hopeless romantic.

Every gay guys GPS system would tell him to go straight.

'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works in a way. You dont decide how much and how deeply to love you respond to the beloved and give with joy exactly as much as they want.

Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the U.S., but I didn't click with anyone.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

The man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'