All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
Long you live and high you fly. And smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry. And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
But that’s not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn’t exist. You know? Walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness.
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.
And who knows which is which and who is who.
I don’t really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn’t move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.
I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?
Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen.
We don’t need no thought control.
Either you write songs or you don’t. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there’s a natural desire to want to make records.
There is a magic in some books That sucks a man into connections With the spirits hard to touch That join him to his kind.
This is how you control your domestic population – by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.
I could have been an architect, but I don’t think I’d have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he’s going to write poetry or songs.
For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we’re only half way through smashing the second set.
By the cold and religious we were taken in hand – shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.
I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair’s foreign policy.