Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.

(James) Anderson has a gift from the gods: he could swing an orange.

A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.