I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was s….

I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic..

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers..

I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it ….

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong ….

I understand why Vladimir Putin is very popular in Russia - he's probably the first Russian leader to not apologize for being Russian. People always ….

The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping ev….

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer..

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitis….

I'll probably lose every friend I've got, but I think the Russians are about the only people who have behaved decently in the conflict with the Ukrai….

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get….

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just pla….

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hear….

I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to ….

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, find….

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world..

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out o….

The United States is a country where everybody can start again..

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away..

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer..