“You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.”

“I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.”

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”

“You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.”

“I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.”

“The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!”

“I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.”

“The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.”

“Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.”