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.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

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

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.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.