Never bored, so I'll never get old

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

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.