You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.

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