"I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that."

"I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts."

"I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees."

"All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters."

"Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame."