Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.

The whole positioning and atmosphere of the song ["King of the Mountain"] was to build up this thunderstorm that would take us all onstage off into a story where we were suddenly in the middle of the ocean.

Using telephones, they would be so intrusive and would really disrupt the show.

After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.