I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

Time is a river, and it flows in a circle. I love you.

She just keeps kissing my scars. Every scar. She knows about them all. She watched them all appear and heal. Sophie's lips against me make every punch, every kick, every wound, every scar worth it.

I've been living for too long abroad and aboard, Methinking the concept of being grounded or floored.

Those words make a mockery of our battle. Our fight showed me the power of the human will and the possibilities held by the future

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.