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

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 garde things.

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

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

I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

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 sounds and chiming chorus guitars and programmed synths bobbling along in the background.