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

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

Capitalism can be alright, I mean Karl Marx didn't live to see what Roosevelt did with that Depression. He pulled everybody out of that Depression and everybody hated Franklin Roosevelt. He got into office four times. One after the other, with everybody saying, he can't get in again. Everybody voted for Roosevelt four times and he did a hell of a lot.

Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes.

The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.