I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.

Either let me love more or let me go.

I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

Honestly, the world can be a dark enough place. Light it up.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

I'm starting to realize I can't practice a certain way during the week and expect to play another way on Sunday.