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

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.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

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

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

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.