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.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

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.

But whatever your opinion of Jesus or Mohammad, there's an enormous collective faith.

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.

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.

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.

What I'm doing now is stock-piling my short stories, and I'm editing them and reading them onto tape, in some cases with music, and I'm hoping to release those as spoken-word CDs.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.