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I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

I like songs that are simple.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

Fairy-tales are nice.

I'm full of dust and guitars...

I wasn't always this introverted.

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

Well, I've got a color telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

I'm not anything that you think I am

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

I do not think I'm easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I'm not anything that you think I am.

I'm trying to find you!
I'm living, I'm giving;
to find you;
I'm living,
I'm trying, I'm giving.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.

Have You Got It Yet?

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

All middle men are bad.