 I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. |
| I don't do live things. |
| People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back? |
| The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. |
| We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. |
| I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really. |
| I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. |
| Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. |
| In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. |
| People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know. |
| It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. |
| I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. |
| It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends. |
| There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing. |
| I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. |
| If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy. |
| When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion. |
| On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers. |
| I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians. |
| I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. |
