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.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

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.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

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

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

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.