The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent...

I’m not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It’s such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

Unfortunately, in the current litigious climate I’m one of the very many artists who receive tapes and chucks them straight in the bin.

I’ve been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we’ve always enjoyed doing it before. We don’t often get sensible offers to play in the...

I’ve never got on with the British press because they’ve always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn’t concentrate on the...

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I’m nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It’s...

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews… I know, it’s part of the job,...

Most writers can write, most rock ‘n rollers cannot.

I don’t enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

I don’t like doing gigs. We’re pretty good at it, but it takes too much time and energy. Time and energy I’d rather spend on other things.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We’ve been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

I don’t trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends’ houses.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

I don’t want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I’m doing with my hips, but it’s their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I’m a little bit...

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it’s increasingly an art of gesture alone.

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women...

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

I think that’s one reason why football is so popular again – it’s a game which the citizen can focus on, where the rules are defined.