I've always enjoyed reading lyrics, trying to do them more than just lyrics, trying to have some more meaning in them. I know a lot of people are just happy to have a kind of broken word lyrics. I just wonder why, there's no reason why they can't at least attempt to do something a bit better.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

I dreamt for years about making albums and doing world tours-I'd fulfilled all my ambitions in one year.

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this re…

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

'In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means tha…

There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make somet…