If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.

There's something perverse isn't there, if you're playing in front of 100,000 people and there's 2000 people down the front who don't like, you think: what is it that they don't like?

Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quatum Mechanics!

You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.

If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.