“I never make stupid mistakes - only very, very clever ones.”

“I just want to hear something I haven't heard before”

“There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on the stream. There are little currents and eddies and sticks lying in the water that nudge you in a slightly different direction. And then you break loose and carry on down the current. There's nothing that actually stops you and lifts you out of the water and puts you on the bank but there are diversions and distractions and alarums and excursions which is what makes life interesting really. It's fantastic.”

“Personally, I find miracles and magic very hard to believe in. Both to me are simply something that as yet we cannot comprehend but which will be explained logically in time.”

“Wartime fears and hardship had faded, We looked to the future with hope: Expectations rose high as new flats in the sky, And “We’d never had it so good!”

“We are all children of the age into which we are born.”

“Across the years an anguished call Drifts with the tide, "They've killed my boy!" - by thousands multiply.”