You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.

To have faith in God, you must also have faith in His timing....

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

I think there is a way to do things right to tread lightly on the world

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

His eyes were cold and brown - like coffee stains.

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.