Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective exper….

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas..

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the e….

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture..

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 singe….

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done..

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things..

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing..

It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I d….

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation..

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so..

I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes fr….

I stopped drinking a few years ago, and drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckl….

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….

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the ra….

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble..

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 re….

I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th century regrouping in the 20th, not ou….

I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which….

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway..

The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no Ameri….