I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].

I've always been dead set against festivals, really suspicious and wary.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.