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.

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.

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

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 think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.