I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

If you judge people by what they've done in the past, you're wrong.

When I read about Gram Parsons' dream of this Cosmic American Music when I was in my late teens, that stuck with me: that idea, that ambition, to draw off the roots of music but take it somewhere fresh.

The greatest footballers take the sport into the world of art, of performance.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.