I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

Im going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didnt cause them any later embarrassment.

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'