I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

I don't talk about my private life.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

You know the first objective is to get out of your hometown, second objective, get it together in the capital. The awful thing about left the school, is that you'd feel you'd be important. It would matter what you did.

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.