Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

You can't censor people's dreams.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

Everything is a reaction.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

If you do things out of time you're weird.

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

Production is something I've never come to terms with.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again like a balloon.

Just as with a guitar you can improvise a guitar solo and theyd probably be similar each time but they wont be exactly the same. With the word its probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

Whistleblowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime and certainly not as terrorism.

Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.

Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.

Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

I can't stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got.

I did everything in my power not to be an actress. I went off and did a teacher-training course first, so I could teach English and Drama - because I'm not thick, surprisingly enough.

I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a wedding song. But what's also really cool is songs that no one else would have at their wedding, like an obscure Radiohead song.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

Friendship requires great communication.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Create your future from your future not your past.

Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.

In reality punk people are usually the gentlest kindest folks youll ever know. Theyre like hippies only they wear way more black.