If you do things out of time you're weird.
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.
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.
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.
Production is something Ive never come to terms with.
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.
If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.
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.
Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.
Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.
The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
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.
I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.
Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.
I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.
When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.
I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.
I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.
If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.
