I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

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.

There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

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I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.