A month later, someone sent a photo in to David Greenberger, who runs my web-site. It showed a beauty contest, where the new Miss Ohio was being crowned: her name was Robyn Hitchcock.
After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
As an amorphous, shapeless kid that wanted to be a singer but didn't know how you went about it, that seemed like a starting place.
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
But whatever your opinion of Jesus or Mohammad, there's an enormous collective faith.
Dreams are a scientific fact.
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
Everything is a reaction.
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
I don't really get my songs from real life experiences, at least not all the time.
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
I think I did something like sixty interviews for Globe of Frogs and ninety for Queen Elvis, plus driving around to every radio station that hadn't retracted beneath the surface of the land.
I think it might just be a record that people could put on when they come out of the bath... something they can put on when they've steamed.
I was a complete Bob Dylan fiend.
I was always jealous of something getting more attention.
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.
If you do things out of time you're weird.
In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.
Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.
My obsession with Avalon, the last Roxy Music album, spurred my interest in production, but lately I've begun to wonder what the whole thing would sound like on an acoustic guitar with occasional piano in the background.
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
Painting is always a struggle, it's much harder to do - the brush always feels like it's about to go out of control.
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.
Production is something I've never come to terms with.
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.
Solo acoustic is what I did originally.
The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.
The world may be a sick place, but music is the doctor, and they don't come any more qualified than Gillian and David.
This is why at the moment we're still having real performances as opposed to holograms, although in ten years that might change.
Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.
You can't censor people's dreams.
You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
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