“Creative people are more prone to depression.”

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.

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.

Mile high club, it’s got its ups and downs.

People weren’t buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

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

Maybe it won’t be cured, but you’ve got to take the medication you’re prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there’s a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist.

More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.

Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

I was more inclined to think of it as “writer’s impatience”, and to follow Arthur Koestler’s dictum: “Soak; and wait.

It’s incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent.

Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date.

You don’t wake up one day and discover you’re a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.