In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Performing was terrifying.

I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

I can never predict what's going to happen.

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

I didn't really want to give up music.

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

Its fabulous when you do that when you discover somebody who you like when you kind of feel those feelings even though he articulates them better.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at.

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

Boston is the engine of the state's economy.

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.