In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and – I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical – beyond the day I die.

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I’ve got a lot in common with everybody else.

After the Soft Boys I just didn’t want to work with any more guitarists.

I thin many people’s deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear… as if there’s an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

I can tell how I’m doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

People’s intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don’t tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh… or they’d lock each other up.

Everything is a reaction.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and – I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical – beyond the day I die.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

Production is something I’ve never come to terms with.

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody’s sure in honor of what.

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

If you do things out of time you’re weird.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn’t want to have to produce it by committee.

I’ve been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it’s time to do all the other stuff.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I’m most competent at.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

Well, I’ve been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

I became a musician because that’s really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

You can’t censor people’s dreams.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.