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 was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

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

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