People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.

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.

Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense

I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.

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

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

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