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!

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.