The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

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.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

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Laugh and grow strong.

You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.

We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.

I have a passion for fast cars. To drive them means pure joy to me.

As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'.

That God, Who dwells in my hand, Knows this secret plan Of the things He will do for the world Using my hand!

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

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