I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!.

One thing I've always been really proud of about our band is that we've done what we wanted to do, what we enjoy doing, and we've been really lucky t….

I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out..

Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will li….

The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any….

Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people..

One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or s….

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken..

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he….

WE MADE A MONSTER OF HITLER, A DEVIL. THAT IS WHY (THEREFORE) WE COULD NOT AFTER THE WAR SAY OTHERWISE. WE HAD PERSONALLY MOBILISED THE MASSES NEVER….

My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But ….

People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and hav….

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made..

When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision..

I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype..

Once I was in the Blink-182, going to Iraq was really touching. It was kind of emo for me, going and meeting soldiers who were, like, 19 and hadn't e….

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that..

I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should d….

It's really hard to maintain a band as a democracy. Again, I think there's been a shift. There's a lot of emphasis put on style and a singular person….

True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people..

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't k….