The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.