I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times.