I don't feel as if I'm in competition with myself; not at all.

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like to learn to fly would ya, would you like to see me try

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.