Quotes from Jonathan King

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

We worked as a team... I was one of the band.

It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.

I lead my life as normal.

No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

This is how you have adventures. You find cool things and you do them ... you don't just read books about them!

Talent," she said, "is Gods gift to you. What you do with it, is your gift back to him." ... The Blue Edge of Midnight, pg. 3.

The basic position of theological aesthetics, argued by reasonable inference from Scripture, is that beauty corresponds in some way to the attributes of God, and as such is a communicated property or phenomenon of the opera Dei ad extra.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations.

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago - with virtually no complaints made?