Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.