 An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity. |
| I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him. |
| You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy. |
| I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead. |
| I was always jealous of something getting more attention. |
| If you do things out of time you're weird. |
| 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. |
| Using the word weird implies that there is a norm. |
| One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee. |
| Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception. |
| 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. |
| Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon. |
| Production is something I've never come to terms with. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Everything is a reaction. |
| After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists. |
| Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign. |
