Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

True love is really animal.

Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog-big as a donkey. ... I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ... I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. ... Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.