There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

The cultural mix that’s happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.

There’s no field of music which doesn’t have good ideas.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that’s the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it’s not yet, I don’t think. It’s too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

In theory, I’d like to work in a group. But the group I’d like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

We’ve all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I’ve done a record, it’s not that I think it’s better or worse than anyone else’s, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn’t, well then that’s ok.

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I’m just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

Anybody who thinks pop music’s easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn’t.