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

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

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

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

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.