I don't do live things.

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.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle. But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it.

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Thankfully, I'm not superstitious.

Take things slowly. No need to worry about it. Plenty of people moved things and couldn't remember they'd done it.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.