You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that... the music too.

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.

I don't go walking into things blind.

There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.