I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

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

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.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

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.