Prince's manager once told me that I was the only person other than Prince who can recruit from the streets. Which was very flattering.

The only good Philip K. Dick film is 'Total Recall.' It's faithful to the book. Arnie gets it.

They're weird aren't they, Prince fans?

All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I'll just usually go to the nearest bar. I need a couple of hours by myself.

The manners thing's got worse. People think they can just text you if they've got bad news for you. It's not on. And as for people taking pictures at gigs on their phones, that's just weird.

My earliest memory is learning to read ‘Muffin the Mule’ when I was about three.

I used to believe everything I read, but now I’m steppin’ out.

How long is long in a hellish place?

It’s just like music when you reckon it up. It’s like, listening to Pavement, it’s just the Fall in 1985, isn’t it? They haven’t got an original idea in their heads.

They fail to realize that 99.9 per cent of people with a healthy diet will eventually die.