British Quotes

I'm not looking for guidance.

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

I'm into the girls fancying me and stuff, mad for it.

I'll never have a stylist.

I want to be in the best band in the world again.

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

I find words really hard.

I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

I didn't always want to be a dad.

Being a lad is what I'm about.

If I like something, I get it and I put it on.

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.