I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.