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Everything is a reaction.
Let there be more darkness
Dreams are a scientific fact.
You can't censor people's dreams.
If you do things out of time you're weird.
Love is the distance between reality and pain.
Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
Production is something Ive never come to terms with.
Production is something I've never come to terms with.
Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.
I was always jealous of something getting more attention.
I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.
An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
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.
I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.
If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.
I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.
I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.
There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.
The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.
Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.
People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.
I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.