The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.