"I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars."

"A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared."

"I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music."

"My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me."

"I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern."

"My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now."

"For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls."

"You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs."

"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."