A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.
I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.
I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind. . . I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.
You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as bored with your songs as you are, or you try with all your might to get out of those patterns. This is what a lot of the work is all about.