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I don't do live things.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

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In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some...

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my...

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

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