I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

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.

Love sees more with its eyes closed than hate with its eyes open.

When people come together and discuss their differences based on life issues that are shared, it brings about successful changes.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

Never let a crisis go to waste

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.