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.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

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

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.