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

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.

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

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.

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