“To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.”

“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”

“If it works, it's out of date.”

“I rate Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he`s up there with Bryan Ferry.”

“As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?”

“Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.”

“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.David Bowie”