I think anything that increases your understanding of the human condition... I think age and life, if you're lucky, makes you think deeper, and the other thing it makes you realize is that you never stop learning, and you never lose your fear of getting it wrong.

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

It's my job to manipulate feelings.

I'm so hands-on and involved in my own music that I feel like if I put the same effort into another artist, then I can definitely cultivate something great.

It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.

Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that's unbelievable!

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.