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

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunk—I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

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