When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

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.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Always just a brainstorm away from our next disaster...

Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin—sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race.

The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

It's hard to top what you see in the film, they were just such a great group of people to work with and we all hung out in between scenes and I got to know everybody a little bit.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

I don't think I really understand girls now.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.