Whoever prefers Allah to all others, Allah will prefer him to others..

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music..

If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you're over 5….

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue..

The greatest movies are the ones you want to watch again and again..

I never thought of myself as a writer..

I'm playin' the music I like..

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times..

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere..

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work..

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel..

I never learned to read music..

You are the one and only ever you..

I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it..

It’s almost always sadder to stay than to depart.

I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad….

I just got called Nigel..

For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger..