"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Dreams are a scientific fact."

"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."

"You can't censor people's dreams."

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

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

"If you do things out of time you're weird."

"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."

"Production is something I've never come to terms with."

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

"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."

"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."

"Using the word weird implies that there is a norm."

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

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