I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. It has the same sound and number of syllables as Zowie. And Joe stuck for most of his childhood. Now he has reverted to his real name, Duncan. Haywood was my father's name.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.