People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.