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.

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.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.