Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.

The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

Without music I would never, ever have travelled anywhere.

It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on.

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.