If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

You can't play bass in a vacuum.

I enjoy anything to do with music.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

Being friends with you was great but now we will be both friends and lovers.

Never hold on to anything that's capable of holding back your destiny.

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

I'm difficult on every single level. I'm aware that I can be annoying.