If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

See the ridiculous in everything.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

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.

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.