Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.