If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Choose your mutations carefully...

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

She put her hand on her hip. "Where are you going?""To the boat. You called me Lord Bill again. That means we're cool."Cerise slapped her forehead with the heel of her hand and followed him.

The fact differentiates the fake.

If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.