The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.
I love being in London, where I live, for the shops, the bars and the clubs - but I equally enjoy going to my mum's house in Ayrshire and being able to sit on a cliff by the sea.
There's still nothing I love more than being in the air. I've always liked speed and things on wheels, going out there and putting it all out there, being on the edge.
I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.
I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.
Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.
My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.
I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there be a demand for birth control?
Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.
Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame...
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are, The second greatest is being happy with what you find.
An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.
