I have a fascination with the nasty things people do to each other and the way relationships go wrong, and how there can be this very dark underbelly to seemingly normal, mundane domestic life. They're the stories in the newspapers I always find interesting. That's not a very nice thing to admit to, is it?
Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.
Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.
I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.
The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: 'Don Quixote' contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
