I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

I’m not anything that you think I am.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

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.

I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.