Biography

Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year old daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she was old enough to go out and make her own.

I don't get this fashion for happy funerals. This is a very fashionable idea, that when you die, it's supposed to be a celebration and joyous and everyone laughing. But I want people's lives torn apart when I go. I want to be embalmed and brought out when we have guests.

It was developing countries where people are more cheery, wasn't it? ... Well, because when people are materially disadvantaged, maybe they're more optimistic, because they know that their destiny's not entirely in their own hands. And so they just have to hope for the best. Whereas in the developed world, where materially we've got plenty of stuff, and lots of opportunities, we know that the only thing stopping us from being happy is ourselves, which of course is a kind of downward spiral into disillusionment and hopelessness, isn't it, really? Because you're never gonna get rid of yourself, so if you're basically unhappy, you're always gonna be unhappy, and in the remaining time that you've got left, you're either gonna be in despair about the fact that you've wasted your life, or maybe a bit cheerful about the fact that it's nearly over.

The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.

Most harm is done by people who are awake.