I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

I heard the news today, oh boy.

Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we'd better do something postmodernist - quickly, before somebody else did.