I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.

You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time

This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.

Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.