I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

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.

My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.