The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.