I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.