For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.