They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly

On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down."

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

I always write well in New York.

People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.

I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.