"Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting."

"I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself."

"I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire."

"I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't."

"I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it."

"Nature abhors annihilation."

"Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the only true currency in life is time well spent."