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.

If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.

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.

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

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.

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.

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