It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.

For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

Why have you been my friend when I didn’t deserve friendship?” “Because friendship isn’t something anyone deserves…it’s just one of those blessings of life, you can’t earn…love has no price tag.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff. Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.