"I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity."
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"I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity."
"If you love animals, don't eat them."
"I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name."
"Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right."
"I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?"
"The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that."
"And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too."
"Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs."
"Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong."
"Sometimes, you know, bad is good."
"My father's a character."
"I grew up with British rock."
"The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting."
"I never had a long-term plan."
"I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front."
"I'm a complete and utter busker."
"I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again."
"And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible."
"Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job."
"I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month."