You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?

I’m not anything that you think I am.

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.

I wasn't always this introverted.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.