“I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.”
Music“I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.”
Famous“I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.”
Music“One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.”
Freedom“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.”
Friendship“I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.”
Change“I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.”
Fitness“I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.”
Famous“That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.”
Failure“I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.”
Music“I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.”
Music“I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.”
Family“There's no religion but sex and music.”
Music“I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.”
Age“I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.”
Family“I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.”
Home“The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.”
Death“I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.”
Freedom“I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.”
Music“Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.”
Music“I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.”
Fear“I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.”
Music