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

I'm afraid of Americans; I'm afraid of the world; I'm afraid I can't help it.

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.

Capitalism can be alright, I mean Karl Marx didn't live to see what Roosevelt did with that Depression. He pulled everybody out of that Depression and everybody hated Franklin Roosevelt. He got into office four times. One after the other, with everybody saying, he can't get in again. Everybody voted for Roosevelt four times and he did a hell of a lot.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.