Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead.

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.

If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

We can never go back.

A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.