I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

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

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.

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.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

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

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.