On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

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.

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.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

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.