You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other.

Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

The more that you follow me, the more I get lost

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

Freedom of expression is more than a fashion statement.

It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars.

Dreams don't have an expiration date.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.