I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

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

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.