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When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut!

Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".

Once there the main man, the bearded preacher, bridles and jabs, spasms and gurns like a pre-ejaculatory James Brown.

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

You have to forgive everyone for everything. You can't cling on to any blame that you may be using to make sense of the story of your life.

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

Spurred by Amy's death I've tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.

Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.

The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be.

We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.

I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

As a person ... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo ...

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Death grip, by the way, is the literal translation of the word mortgage.

No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'

The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen.

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

We have been told that freedom is the ability to pursue petty, trivial desires when true freedom is freedom from these petty, trivial desires.

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

Nigel Farage and Sean Hannity is like a super group of idiots.

All desires are the inappropriate substitute for the desire to be at one with God.

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.

I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony.

People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's possible.

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

When people are content they are difficult to manoeuvre. We are perennially discontent and offered placebos as remedies.

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

Well this all seems like a bit of a storm in a teacup!

As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

Sexist Dave suggested dancing girls in skimpy outfits and everyone said that was fine.

It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years,

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

In spite of the anguish my addiction to drugs and alcohol has caused me, I wouldn't relinquish its lessons

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

If you've got any concern at all about animal welfare, you've got to not eat meat.

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look.

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it's not real-that's why it's got the word "con" in the middle of it.

It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.

A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

Everyone has their own mantra.

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah". I think there's something wrong with my headphones.

The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives

That's what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality.

Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.

Mark Twain, the thinking man's Colonel Sanders, reputedly said, America is New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

I used to believe in the system that I was born into: aspire, acquire, consume, get famous and glamorous, get high and mighty, get paid and laid.

People who say the system works work for the system.

Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.

If anybody needs any help with anything, I'm prepared to help.

Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.

Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.

I'll not be changing, but America will.

Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

In the United States, 95 per cent of income gains since the recession began have gone to the top 0.01 per cent.

On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.

The only meaningful interpretation of any religious teaching is to honor the divine within ourselves and love the divine in one another.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.

I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.

I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem - reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution.

It seems to me that a lot of people are using religious arguments to advance their own prejudices.

Consciousness does affect matter.

The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.

The nation state is a relatively modern idea, and I don't think we're getting a lot out of it except for flags and World Cups.