"I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me."

"At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation."

"What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day."

"Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore."

"A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust."

"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."

"I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black."

"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins."