Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.
I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.
This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me. "
So I went down my local ice-cream shop, and said 'I want to buy an ice-cream'. He said Hundreds & thousands?' I said 'We'll start with one. ' He said 'Knickerbocker glory?' I said 'I do get a certain amount of freedom in these trousers, yes. '
I saw this train driver and said, 'I wanna go to Paris. ' He said, 'Eurostar?' I said, 'Well I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin. ' Mind you, at least the Eurostar's comfy. It's murder on the Orient Express isn't it?
Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.
So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.
It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.
Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!