Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.

I've never said I'm a communist.

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.