I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.