I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers..

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me..

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee..

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity..

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was ….

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, ….

Production is something Ive never come to terms with..

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos..

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like..

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception..

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what..

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either..

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all.….

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it….

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the mon….

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular..

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups..

If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up..

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at..

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I ….

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign..