The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

The idea of feeling old is much more the worry of a slightly younger person. When you are getting old, that becomes - psssh - completely secondary to the absolute understanding of how short your life is.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.