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.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

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.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.