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

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

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

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.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.