I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.

Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.