The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.