I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's why music is in the sorry state that it is. Any idiot, actors mainly, can go in there, sing a chord, bang on a machine... I'm not objecting to that but when people get at me for trying to say something in a rock 'n' roll mode it's as if I'm the freak.

I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's why music is in the sorry state that it is. Any idiot, actors mainly, can go in there, sing a chord, bang on a machine... I'm not objecting to that but when people get at me for trying to say something in a rock 'n' roll mode it's as if I'm the freak.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.