You can't play bass in a vacuum.

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

I enjoy anything to do with music.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

Lightning hides the colour of night

Figure out what you care about...and then care about it

Love is a promise existence makes with us.

My life has become like a bus, and I'm just watching it pass by

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail.