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

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

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

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

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.