The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.