Singles are always simple.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?

I’m not anything that you think I am.

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.

I wasn't always this introverted.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want...

There is a point where the universe can deliver you from the verge of regret. I know your love for me will take you there.

People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent

When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.