The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.