I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a shame. I'm trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I'll be much happier.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.