I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously—" “Yes,” Roger said. “She's the one.

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.

The reality of an actor's life is that we do not always have the luxury of choice. We take what comes to us.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.