You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street.

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

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.