"I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic."

"I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry."

"I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance."

"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music."

"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."

"It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction."

"Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication."

"Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value."