I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.

I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country.

I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.

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.

Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.

The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.