[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Life for me is about movement.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

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.

I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.