I still get a buzz from seeing young kids making music.

To me, NOTHING is 'new'.

I think there are still plenty of free-thinking creative people out there. There always will be.

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

The internet has huge advantages but its downside is the easy access to resources.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.

Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship sailing across endless oceans never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly unexpectedly it will find mooring for a moment.

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].

I love rollercoasters, thrill-seeking, all of that is fun.

You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.

Pete Rose is baseball.

You don't get a lot of suicidal vampires.

It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.