Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

Think globally, act locally.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us.