Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

To me, NOTHING is 'new'.

I think there are still plenty of free-thinking creative people out there. There always will be.

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

The internet has huge advantages but its downside is the easy access to resources.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.

I still get a buzz from seeing young kids making music.

The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.

Men like him, the kind of guys who left the womb fighting? They didn’t get fairy-tale endings. They burned bright until they burned out—and he was burning out.

As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

It's cool to know that I can make girls faint.