I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

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.

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

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

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.