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

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we'd better do something postmodernist - quickly, before somebody else did.

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.