I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

I don't think losing things - in my case, the use of my legs - really damages or hurts you. What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation. A lot of the wars going on right now in the Middle East aren't about poverty and exploitation. They're about humiliation. For a long time, the British and French have been humiliating the people of the Middle East, and encouraging people like Israel to do the same. Israel started out as a socialist state, but we always encouraged them to become rather racist and look down on the local inhabitants, which they now do. It's sad that's happened.

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

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

The missing links in my life's work, no less!