Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.
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.
My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.