I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

Songs are more powerful than books.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.