Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

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

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

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.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.