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.

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.

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

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

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Giving is Living

The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware.

The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.