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

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

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.

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

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

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

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.