The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.

And then, one day, they program a new tune, and it really catches your ear, you know, because you can be doing the washing up or something, you know, in your apartment and suddenly you go, whoa, what are they playing in there? And you run to the wall, but it's finished - but the song's finished. You only heard enough of it just the pique your interest. And you never know when they're going to play it again, of course, like a normal radio station.

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.