I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.

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

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.

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