I am a bandleader and I am a composer. I am not a teacher.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

I don't believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have don…

On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention …

I made this big statement saying, 'I've left The Libertines.' A couple of people said, 'You can't do that! You're such a great band! What are you gonna do abou…

I've never considered playing music to have anything to do with being 'professional'.