There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.