After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.