Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the rest of the world didn't know anything about them.

One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise found out about.

I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens.

Life tries and succeeds in stopping you with its horrible ways during your happy times

The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

Man is an endangered species.

I could not 'make' you--except by force, which would break your mind.

Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

I really really wanna see Lenny Kravitz 'cause I wanna be his rockchick!

Donald Trump will do what he is told is the right thing to do in complying with the law.

I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.