I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

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

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

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.