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.

Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.

King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.

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

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.”

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