In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.