On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.