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

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

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.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

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

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.

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