I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known that and observed that and treated music with great respect accordingly.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.