I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (on how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24"-that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one-it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.