You may leave school, but it never leaves you..

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get….

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it..

Success is being nothing but a quote..

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever..

I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me..

Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure ….

I felt pressured by continuous touring..

Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey.

By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most importa….

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is..

Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn.

You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of abso….

I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow ….

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant gard….

Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the C….

I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting..

I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence….

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way..

You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all huge processed drum s….

I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of m….