People always said that I hated punk, and that really wasn't true. It was glossed over for many years that I was the guy who found the Tubes and signed them to A&M. English punk was a revolution.
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those da...
I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.
It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.
Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.
Frank Morris: Something special about those steps? English: The higher you sit, the more status you got. So we kind of play King of the Mountain. Except here we don't play for fun, man. Frank Morris: And you're King? English: Yeah. [Morris walks down...
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
Devi-Mahatmayam has special meaning for spirituality, With illumination, wisdom, strength - to freedom finally! - 150 -
Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.
One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...
I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.
Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again
They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.
My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.
The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.
Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.
