A fleet of British ships at war is the best negotiators.

Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

I cannot command winds and weather.

Close with a Frenchman, but out-manoeuvre a Russian.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.