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I can't retire.

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

I hope I die before I get old.

I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

Training hasn't been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to get myself into the right mind frame.

There are some great divers in Europe and I'm really excited about going to Eindhoven.

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

It means so much to be European champion again with a personal best and I couldn't have asked for anything more.

I was World Series champion in individual and synchro for the first time which was awesome.

I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.

I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.

I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!

Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.

It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so

Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.

In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to t

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'