If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

I have always enjoyed the company of women.

By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money.