Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

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.

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

Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.

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.

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.

If you do things out of time you're weird.