When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.