That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

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.

A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

I always feel a bit awkward when it's time to talk about the K.I.N.D. fund. I don't want to be one of those guys on a telephone begging you to contribute.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

I'm not pushing myself forward in denial of the moment. I'm pushing myself forward and enjoying every moment voraciously. I'm thinking about the next thing but not at the expense of the present.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.