I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.