Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

Many Words Of Love are Spoken, Many Hearts Still Broken, Many Promises Were Meant To Last Forever Girl.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?

Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.