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

My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've never seen quite so fierce a little boy as you were,' she told me. She tried to explain that I couldn't get my father in a tractor. Apparently I looked at her and narrowed my eyes and said, 'In that case, I'm going in a double-decker bus,' and stomped off. Which is kind of funny, but it's very sad, as well.

I have no problem with any question.

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

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

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

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.