Law is always better than war.

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect