No more free steps to heaven.

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."

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.

I'm not at ease with the word "love."