I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

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.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

I will deny thee nothing: Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, To leave me but a little to myself.

The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

I see my pops everyday and that's what I wanted.

I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.