I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.