Musician

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

You can't censor people's dreams.

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

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

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

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.

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

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.