The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
“I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.”
“I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.”