You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.