People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.