I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

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.

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

By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.

Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

There are so many people out there who think they are fans of Pink Floyd - and certainly the work I did in Pink Floyd - who are still furious that I left.

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