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.

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

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

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.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

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.

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.