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

I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.

If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.