Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.
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.
This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.
Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.
My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.