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

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.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive.

The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.

I'm an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you're even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

We are being entertained all the time - in the bathroom, on the train, in our beds. Sure, there is a smaller audience for theater. But we know from radio that entertainment never goes away, it just changes. And more power to it.

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

A master's is a lot more work than my first degree, but I'm an athlete who knows what she wants. I made up my mind, and I'm determined that this is what I'm going to do.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfillment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.