I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

When it is imperative to make a vivid offering towards life then a simulated introspection for all possible dimensions may be endured to establish a relationship with external world and world within

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

As you get older your hair just starts getting a bit darker which makes me sad. So I probably need to surf more.

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.