You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

You can't play bass in a vacuum.

I enjoy anything to do with music.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

..the happy hum of humanity.

A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

Two things revolutionised life: Moving to the countryside, and falling in love

I died to the law so that I might live for God.

I imagine that fish have no word for water.