"I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it."

"There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off."

"I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things."

"I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result."

"Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death."

"We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great."

"O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast."

"I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence."