Life for me is about movement.

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.

I find humming is very useful.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.