I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!

I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.

I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

I never try to be too sexy. People know when you're not comfortable and trying to be sexy.

Common sense alas in spite of our educational institutions is a rare commodity.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

The truly happy man is the one who has everything money can’t buy.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

Everything I learned about the game of baseball, I learned from my dad.

Complacency doesnt make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.