“The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.”

The brain isn’t like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I’ve always played live.

I think what’s going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

Depression is something that doesn’t just go away. It’s just… there and you deal with it. It’s like… malaria or something.

Bad things happen sometimes.

I didn’t lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

I’ve learned to really just say no. If I don’t want to do something, I won’t do it. There’s nothing that can make me do anything.

When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it’s almost inexplicably awful.

I’m blind without my glasses.

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don’t make any money, then you change things.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

Prison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

It’s good to play 100 per cent live – no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever.

I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

I don’t particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.