MARTIN FIRRELL

When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Different is not wrong.

Protest is liberty's ally.

Power is always temporary.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

I want to live … where the people who make the rules have to live by them.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

Women are much more honourable than men.

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

Everyone is as confused as I am.

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.