I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.
Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands.
Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.
I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.
I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.
I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.
With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.
There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.
I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.
Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.