I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.

'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.

Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.

If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.

When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

To have more, you've got to become more.

Remember how to breathe how to live please

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never ever be boring.

Even the sidewalks in New Orleans had personality.

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

UNIFIL was a complete disappointment. But a kind of multinational force.

One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about.

Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.

The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.

I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

A spouse is not a destination but a fellow traveler.

Whatever you believe to be true, whether it is true or not; if you believe it, then to you it becomes the truth.

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it.

Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional.

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.