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

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

If it works, it's out of date.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.